EASLEY v. JOHN HANCOCK MUT. LIFE INS. CO.

Docket No. 24211.

70 Mich. App. 451 (1976)

245 N.W.2d 785

EASLEY v. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 4, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Adams, Jr., for Helen Easley and Demosthenes L. Easley.

Seymour Berger, for defendant Jeffrey P. Jackson.

Before: R.M. MAHER, P.J., and D.C. RILEY and R.M. RYAN, JJ.


Leave to appeal applied for.

D.C. RILEY, J.

We are confronted with a constitutional challenge to a portion of our statutory scheme of distribution of intestate estates. Appellant contends that a statute requiring that, as a condition to an illegitimate child's participation in the estate distribution, the father file an acknowledgment document in the probate court is constitutionally infirm. After careful study, we rule that the statutory scheme is constitutionally...

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