Beesley v. Harris

DURHAM, Justice:

La Juana Jo Beesley appeals from a judgment entered by the Fifth District Court following a bench trial. The court awarded La Juana one-half of her husband Clay Taylor Beesley’s estate. The remaining heirs to Clay’s estate — three nieces, Helen Hams, Mary Louise Clark, and Ruth Ann Anderson, and a nephew, Michael Wayne Beesley— cross-appeal a separate portion of that judgment which awarded La Juana certain specif*1345ic items of property in addition to her one-half share. We affirm.

Clay and La Juana met in October 1985 when La Juana responded to a personal advertisement that Clay…