Curious Commonwealth asks: How was my spouse allowed to give away our retirement to a stranger?
Imagine being married for more than three decades — and the day your spouse dies, you learn they’d given your entire retirement savings to someone you don’t know.
That’s what happened to Chesterfield resident Patti McFarland,
“I guess I have to discuss it in order to explain why it needs to be fixed,” she says. “It’s just an archaic rule that nobody’s corrected.”…