Kowalski v. Upchurch

PITTMAN, Judge.

This appeal, taken from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court, concerns the proper distribution of a payable-on-death annuity purchased by an insured who had named a spouse as the primary beneficiary thereof but who later divorced that spouse pursuant to a judgment, which incorporated the parties’ settlement agreement, that divested the spouse of “all items of personal ... property” in the insured’s name.

The civil action from which this appeal was taken was brought by Ohio National Life Insurance Company (“Ohio Nation*461al”), which asserted in its complaint that it had issued…