E. Francis Reidenbaker v. Office of Personnel Management

878 F.2d 1445

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Decided: July 28, 1989
• Docket: 89-3135
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

878 F.2d 1445

Unpublished Disposition
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E. Francis REIDENBAKER, Petitioner,
v.
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, Respondent.

No. 89-3135.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

May 12, 1989.
Rehearing Denied July 28, 1989.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and PAULINE NEWMAN and MAYER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

DECISION

The decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (board), No. AT08318810288, affirming the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) reconsideration decision denying E. Francis Reidenbaker's (Reidenbaker) application for a survivor annuity, is affirmed.

OPINION

Because Reidenbaker failed to prove that her husband's election of an unreduced single life annuity and waiver of his right to elect a survivor annuity for his wife was not voluntary, the board correctly affirmed OPM's reconsideration decision. See Frantz v. Office of Personnel Management, 778 F.2d 783, 786 (Fed.Cir.1987). When an individual executes a document he is presumed to have the capacity to do so. See Brosnan v. Brosnan, 263 U.S. 345 (1923) (capacity to execute will).