Legal Opinion
Allstate Life Insurance v. Hanson
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided May 3, 2002No. 01-C-412PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
ADELMAN, District Judge.
I. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
This case involves a dispute between Misti Hanson, the former wife of Richard Hanson, now deceased, and Elizabeth Hanson, Richard’s mother and only heir. The dispute concerns who is entitled to the benefits of Richard’s life insurance policy. Misti is the named beneficiary of the policy, but a recently-enacted Wisconsin statute changed the status of former spouses named as beneficiaries of life insurance policies. The new law creates a presumption that divorce revokes the beneficiary status of former spouses; and it applies…
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