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The Presumption Of Death From Absence As Affecting The Statute Of Limitations And The Nonpayment Of Premiums In Life Insurance Cases, Kenneth Cox
Washington Law Review
The doctrine that seven years' unexplained absence from home will raise a presumption that the missing person is dead has proved a troublesome one to apply in the insurance cases in which, modernly, it is chiefly called into play. As long as it is merely employed to establish the death of a missing spouse, in order to allow remarriage by the survivor, or in order to permit the distribution of the missing person's estate, or in many of the other situations where it is relied upon to establish the fact of death, the courts have little difficulty with the presumption. …
Life Insurance Proceeds As Community Property, Russell V. Hokanson
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
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. …