Bishop v. Eckhard

PUDLOWSKI, Judge.

Decedent’s widow appeals a judgment awarding the proceeds of her deceased husband’s life insurance policy and the accumulated contributions to his retirement plan to their daughter, the named beneficiary of the retirement plan and insurance policy. Specifically, appellant contends that decedent’s action in changing the beneficiary to the daughter was in fraud of her marital rights to share in his estate. § 474.150 RSMo (1969).

Appellant and Bernard Joseph Eckhard were married in November, 1946, and remained married until decedent’s death in April, 1977. Born of the marriage…