Shaw v. Shaw

OPINION

VANCE, Justice.

Sandra Shaw, independent executrix of J Shaw’s estate and a child of his previous marriage, 1 sought a declaratory judgment that funds in the possession of Yeulalo Shaw, J’s widow and Sandra’s stepmother, belong to his estate. She asserts that the accounts through which Yeulalo claims the funds as survivor — joint accounts in the names of Yeulalo and J — are not survivor-ship accounts as a matter of law.

After J and Yeulalo were married in 1984, J decided to change two of his bank accounts so that Yeulalo would be a joint account holder. They went to MBank in October 1988…