HUTCHINGS v. BATES

No. A-11049.

406 S.W.2d 419 (1966)

Guanadine Bates HUTCHINGS et vir, Petitioners, v. Geraldine BATES, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

July 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dillingham & Schleider, Houston, for petitioners.

Barrow, Bland, Rehmet & Singleton, R. F. Wheless, Jr., with above firm, Houston, for respondent.


WALKER, Justice.

The question to be decided here is whether a divorce decree and the property settlement agreement upon which it rests created an obligation which binds the husband's estate to make child support payments accruing after his death.

Geraldine Bates, plaintiff, obtained a divorce from her husband, Warren David Bates, in 1949. They had been married some five years, and two children were born to their marriage. One of the children was born in 1945...

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