A judge serves on a state trial court that has nine other judges. Her husband is a life insurance salesman for a large life insurance company. The life insurance company is occasionally a litigant in the court on which the judge sits. Every year the life insurance company runs a national sales contest in which the person who sells the most life insurance during the year receives a valuable prize. The judge's husband won this year and took the judge on an all-expense-paid vacation in Europe. She did not make a public report of the prize. Was it proper for the judge to allow her husband to accept the prize and take her on the European vacation? (A) Yes, because acceptance of the prize cannot reasonably be perceived as undermining the judge's integrity or impartiality (B) Yes, because the prize was won by her husband, not by the judge. (C) No, because the judge did not make a public report of the prize. (D) No, because the life insurance company may later appear as a litigant in the court on which the judge sits. A It was proper for the judge to allow her husband to accept the prize because acceptance thereof does not reasonably appear to undermine the judge's integrity or impartiality. A judge may accept benefits associated with her spouse's business activity that incidentally benefit the judge. [CJC Rule 3.13(B)(8)] (B) is wrong because it ignores the general rule on family members' accepting gifts and other benefits. (C) is wrong because such benefits of a spouse are not subject to the public reporting requirement. [CJC Rule 3.13(B)] (D) is wrong because if the prize is proper under CJC Rule 3.13(B)(8), it does not become improper simply because the insurance company may later appear as a litigant in the judge's court.