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Life Insurance Proceeds As Community Property, Russell V. Hokanson Nov 1938

Life Insurance Proceeds As Community Property, Russell V. Hokanson

Washington Law Review

The past year has witnessed the closing by judicial decision of two important gaps in the Washington community property law, both relating to life insurance proceeds. The first case in point of time, Occidental Life Insurance Company v. Powers, announced the rule that where the husband changes the beneficiary of a life insurance policy which is the property of the community because issued on the life of the husband during marriage and paid for with community funds, without the consent or knowledge of the wife, the former beneficiary, the attempted gift by the husband is ineffective and the wife may …


Status Of The Proceeds Of Life Insurance Under The Community Property System, Fred W. Catlett Apr 1930

Status Of The Proceeds Of Life Insurance Under The Community Property System, Fred W. Catlett

Washington Law Review

The vast and increasing amount of money invested in policies of life insurance in the states having a community property system makes the status of the proceeds of such policies under that system of very general interest, and renders it highly desirable and important that the laws as to such contracts should be worked out with dispatch, definiteness and certainty The fact that there are in the community property states different theories as to the character and extent of the wife's interest and different statutes affecting the determination of the rights of the spouses has led to somewhat varying results. …