Hardin v. Grantham

HAWKINS, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

DIRECT APPEAL

On September 12,1991, the chancery court of the first judicial district of Carroll County entered a judgment granting Betty Grant-ham Hardin (Mrs. Hardin) a divorce from Robert H. Hardin, Jr. (Hardin), and awarding her periodic alimony of $760 a month.

Following their divorce she sought to take out an insurance policy on his life with herself as beneficiary, she paying all premiums. At first he agreed, apparently under the assumption that the policy was simply to protect her alimony, and she would be paid $750 per month in event of his death.…