RHODES v. RHODES

No. 87-CA-2029-MR.

764 S.W.2d 641 (1988)

Dawn Michelle RHODES, Appellant, v. Jeanne Marie RHODES, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Arthur Ray Rhodes, and April Menda Rhodes, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Discretionary Review Denied by Supreme Court March 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elise Givhan Spainhour, Shepherdsville, for Dawn Michelle Rhodes.

B. Mark Mulloy, Louisville, for appellee Jeanne Marie Rhodes.

April Menda Rhodes, Shepherdsville, prose.

Before CLAYTON and WEST, JJ., and DUNN, Special Judge.


DUNN, Special Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a declaration of rights action in which the Bullitt Circuit Court held that the specific recovery distribution language of Kentucky's wrongful death statute was controlling over waiver language by a surviving widow contained in a property settlement agreement filed in a pending dissolution action of the parties' marriage pending at the time of a deceased husband's wrongful death.

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