Cary ex rel. Cary v. Cary

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether the estate of decedent, who owned a Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance Act policy, is required to respond in damages where decedent entered a property settlement agreement with his former wife to keep the insurance in force for the parties’ minor children but, prior to his death, changed the designated beneficiaries.

The chancellor, in dismissing this claim against the estate, made findings of fact which are not in dispute. We adopt therefrom as pertinent to this appeal:

Laura Catherine Cary and John Hale Cary, Jr., are the minor…