Mattingly v. Gentry

PALMORE, Judge.

In McMurray v. McMurray, Ky., 410 S.W.2d 139 (1966), a conveyance of real estate to Joyce McMurray (now Mattingly) and her husband as tenants by the entirety was held voidable to the extent necessary to pay a debt of $12,200 owed by Joyce’s deceased husband to his father at the time of the conveyance, subject however to the right of dower Joyce would have had if the title had run solely to the husband. On remand of the case a controversy developed over the meaning of our opinion in the light of KRS 392.020, the dower statute, which reads as follows:

“After the death of the…