Legal Opinion
Estate of McClain v. McClain
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided August 13, 1962No. 19,502PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAx, J.
Appellee filed a Petition to Determine Heir-ship wherein she alleged that John F. McClain, deceased, died, intestate August 19, 1956, and left surviving him as his sole and only heirs-at-law his second childless widow (the petitioner and appellee heréin) and Thomas G. McClain, his son born by a prior marriage.
Appellants denied this heirship and by an answer set forth a Pre-Marriage Settlement Agreement entered into between decedent and appellee.
The sole question presented to the court below concerned the validity of the Pre-Marriage Settlement. The trial court found the agreement to be…
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