MATTER OF ESTATE OF DOBERT

No. 1 CA-CV 97-0153.

963 P.2d 327 (1998)

192 Ariz. 248

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Frank F. DOBERT, Deceased. Scott R. DOBERT, Successor Conservator-Appellee, v. Jacqueline M. DOBERT-KOERNER, Petitioner-Appellant, and Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department D.

Review Denied September 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bess & Dysart, P.C. by Leon D. Bess, Donald J. Sapala, Phoenix, for Appellant.

Thayer & Thayer, P.C. by Teresa S. Thayer, Phoenix, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Beus, Gilbert & Morrill, P.L.L.C. by K. Layne Morrill, Christine R. Taradash, William D. Cleaveland, Phoenix, for Successor Conservator-Appellee.


OPINION

EHRLICH, Judge.

¶ 1 In 1995, the Arizona legislature enacted a law which provided that a court order dividing a marital estate serves to rescind any revocable disposition or appointment of property made by a divorced person to that person's former spouse. ARIZ.REV.STAT. ANN. ("A.R.S.") section 14-2804 (1995). This appeal asks us to decide the effect of this statute upon the distribution of life-insurance proceeds to a former spouse, the named...

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