Salvato v. Volunteer State Life Insurance Co.

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is a suit for declaratory judgment to determine whether a wife, appointed community survivor of the estate of her incapacitated husband under Article 157 of the Probate Code of the State of Texas, V.A.T.S., has the power to require an insurance company to change the beneficiary of an insurance policy on the life of her husband so as to make herself beneficiary of the policy rather than the estate of the husband. The trial court entered its judgment to the effect that the community survivor has no power to change the beneficiary, and no power to make herself beneficiary.

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