Not exact matches
Prior to 2008, Western District of New York courts held that when a
husband and a wife both file bankruptcy and one spouse has a
life insurance policy with cash value and the other spouse as the beneficiary, the bankruptcy trustee, as trustee for both the owner and beneficiary of the policy, could claim in the cash value.
This concerned the position of cohabitees under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 who would be dependants for those purposes only if they have
lived with the deceased as
husband and wife (or civil partner) for at least two years
prior to the death.
If a
husband dies without a will or trust in place, the spouse will only end up with part of the
husband's estate, depending whether there are children of this marriage, children of
prior marriage, no children, and parents
living.
So my best guess is that your
husband did put your daughter down as the beneficiary of his
life insurance proceeds
prior to his murder.
The next possibility is that the spouses must have
lived in New York as
husband and wife for any period of time, with at least one spouse remaining a state resident for one year
prior to filing.
Two years»
prior, my
husband who travels full time for work during the week had declared he was going to begin his
life - long dream of earning an MBA on the weekends.
My
husband and I
lived there
prior to moving back to MA and loved it.
My home was built in 1893, after we bought her back after my
husband's family
living here 20 years
prior.