Beck v. Beck

Lawson Cloninger, judge.

The issue presented on this appeal is whether a retired serviceman’s designated beneficiary in a Veterans’ Group Life Insurance policy shall prevail over the claim of the serviceman’s children, when the beneficiary was designated contrary to a divorce settlement incorporated into a judicial decree entered by a state court.

The trial court awarded the proceeds of the policy to the insured’s children, appellees Robert Beck and Susan Beck, and we must reverse.

Rollan C. Beck, the insured, was divorced from Delores Beck in Pulaski County Chancery Court on November 20, 1975,…