Kasper v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Blair Moody, Jr., J.

(for affirmance and remand). This case involves the question of whether a provision in a judgment of divorce, which purportedly reflects an oral property settlement agreement that obligates one party to maintain a minor child as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy, may be enforced.

The trial court concluded that such a provision exceeded the statutory authority of the court and therefore declined to enforce it. The Court of Appeals reversed by peremptory order predicated upon the "clear precedent” of Krueger v Krueger, 88 Mich App 722; 278 NW2d 514 (1979), lv den 406…