(January 16, 2019, 10:18 AM EST) -- BOSTON — The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 14 affirmed a lower federal court’s finding that the ex-wife of a deceased professional football player is not entitled to additional pension benefits pursuant to a marital property agreement that was refined by postmortem state court domestic relations orders following her ex-husband's death, finding that the 2011 and 2012 state court domestic relations orders fail to constitute a qualified domestic relations order pursuant to federal law (Linnea Garcia-Tatupu v. Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan, et al., No. 17-2179, 1st Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 1202)....