Estate of Birch

Opinion

ROTH, P. J.

James and Dorothy Birch were married in Texas in December of 1942. They had two children, Robert and Margaret. In apparent anticipation of dissolution of the marriage, the couple, then living temporarily in Germany, entered into a written property settlement agreement in 1962. On April 5,1963, a judgment of divorce between them was entered in the State of Chihuahua, Republic of Mexico. After the sufficiency of that judgment was recognized by the German authorities, 1 and in civil and religious ceremonies on February 8 and 15, 1964, respectively, James married Gudrun Birch in…