Bolen v. Lobaina

Famela Bolen and William Lobaina were divorced in 1991. Lobaina, who thereafter remarried, died on April 6, 2003. At the time of his death, the *417youngest child of the marriage, Amanda, was still a minor. Bolen filed a claim against Lobaina’s estate for $40,000, representing the amount of the proceeds of a life insurance policy provided by Lobaina’s employer. The life insurance policy named Lobaina’s second wife, defendant Karin Lobaina, as the beneficiary. Plaintiff maintains that, pursuant to the judgment of divorce, the minor daughter should have been named as the beneficiary. Plaintiff…