In re Estate of Hanson

OPINION

HUSPENI,' Judge.

Appellant State Department of Human Services maintains that the trial court erred in denying its claim against decedent’s estate for medical benefits rendered to decedent’s predeceased spouse where the predeceased spouse had expired prior to the amendment of the relevant statute but decedent expired after that date. We affirm.

FACTS

According to the parties’ agreed statement of the record:

From June 1986 until John Hanson’s death on November 27, 1986, medical assistance in the amount of $10,836.97 was expended by [appellant] for his care. Upon Mr. Hanson’s death, there…