Legal Opinion
Valdez v. Ramirez
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 26, 1978No. B-7272Published
1Opinion of the Court
574 S.W.2d 748 (1978)
Lillie VALDEZ, Petitioner,
v.
Olga RAMIREZ and Tomas Valdez, Jr., Respondents.
No. B-7272.
Supreme Court of Texas.
July 26, 1978.
Rehearing Denied December 13, 1978.
James M. Heidelberg, San Antonio, for petitioner.
Mitchell, Stewart & Hemmi, Kirk Patterson, San Antonio, for respondents.
DANIEL, Justice.
The issue presented by this case is whether a husband's community interest in his surviving wife's civil service retirement benefits is inheritable upon his death by adult children of his former wife. We hold that it is not.
Lillie Valdez had worked as a United States Civil Service…
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