Life Insurance Co. of North America v. Jackson

SCOLNIK, Justice.

The four children of the late Dr. Norman M. Jackson appeal from a summary judgment of the Superior Court (Cumberland County) entered in favor of Sonjia Jackson, Dr. Jackson’s former spouse. The children and Sonjia were codefendants in this inter-pleader action brought by the Life Insurance Co. of North America to determine the rights of the codefendants to the proceeds of an accidental death insurance policy owned by Dr. Jackson. The children maintain that it was error for the Superior Court to hold that the divorce judgment between Sonjia and Dr. Jackson did not extinguish…