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Appraising Problems, Not Stuff, Chad J. Pomeroy May 2021

Appraising Problems, Not Stuff, Chad J. Pomeroy

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract forthcoming.


Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement In An African Insurance Market, Casey Golomski Aug 2016

Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement In An African Insurance Market, Casey Golomski

Anthropology

Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations. In this article, after delineating the forms of customary and civil marriage and the possibilities for divorce or estrangement from each, I describe how some married women in Swaziland and South Africa mediate this complex social field for their children and families through pensions and continuing to pay for their partners’ insurance coverage. This was not solely out of avarice to reap future …


Insurance: Right Of A Divorced Wife To Recover The Face Amount Of A Life Insurance Policy On Her Husband's Life--Ficke V. Prudential, Giles J. Mccarthy Jan 1948

Insurance: Right Of A Divorced Wife To Recover The Face Amount Of A Life Insurance Policy On Her Husband's Life--Ficke V. Prudential, Giles J. Mccarthy

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Insurance-Right To Proceeds Of Policy On Life Of Divorced Spouse, A. E. Anderson S.Ed. Dec 1947

Insurance-Right To Proceeds Of Policy On Life Of Divorced Spouse, A. E. Anderson S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff was beneficiary of certain life insurance policies issued by defendant on the life of her former husband. All of the policies involved were issued after the marriage and before the divorce, and plaintiff had paid all the premiums on the policies. The administratrix, decedent's second wife, claimed the proceeds on the basis of section 425 of Kentucky Civil Code of Practice which provides for restoration of property obtained from the other spouse by reason of the marriage upon judgment for divorce. Held, where the wife has procured and paid for insurance on the life of her husband a …


Insurance--Effect Of Divorce In Kentucky, Viley O. Blackburn Jan 1946

Insurance--Effect Of Divorce In Kentucky, Viley O. Blackburn

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.