Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Dawn Nita McMorris by Her Mother and Guardian, Novella McMorris

McKAY, Circuit Judge.

As part of a divorce decree, John McMorris agreed to maintain a certain life insurance policy for the benefit of his minor child, Dawn Nita McMorris. However, pri- or to the decree being entered, Mr. McMorris allowed this policy to lapse. Thereafter, Mr. McMorris, who worked for the United States Postal Service, obtained life insurance under the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) program and designated the proceeds of that insurance payable equally to his brothers, sister, and sister-in-law. Mr. McMorris thereafter died, and Metropolitan paid the life…