Brown v. Brown

CRAWLEY, Judge.

This case deals with the preclusive effect of a federal court decision determining that the proceeds of Stirling Robert Brown’s life insurance should go to his second, and not his first, wife.

Katharine Brown (“the first wife”) and Stirling Brown married in 1958, had four children, and divorced in 1982. The divorce judgment awarded the first wife the marital home and ordered Mr. Brown to convey his interest in the home to her. The judgment provided that Mr. Brown was to have a lien on the homeplace in the amount of $31,332.70 (the value of his equity) and that he would receive…