Legal Opinion
Yeats v. Estate of Yeats
Washington Supreme Court
Decided June 15, 1978No. 45118PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrachtenbach, J.
The question presented is whether a property settlement agreement, preliminary to a marriage dissolution, disposed of certain insurance policies and other property. Underlying that issue is a policy question as to the specificity required in dealing with such matters in a settlement agreement or a decree of dissolution.
A summary of the facts is necessary. William and Agnes Yeats, married in 1950, filed for dissolution of their marriage in January 1974. Contemporaneously they signed a property settlement agreement. Five months later Mr. Yeats married Jeanie Yeats. He died 6 months later. The…
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