NEWMAN v. THOMAS

No. S-01-939.

652 N.W.2d 565 (2002)

264 Neb. 801

Ivorie Pearl NEWMAN, Personal Representative of the Estate of John Henry M. Chamberlin, deceased, Appellee, v. Alfred THOMAS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

October 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. McGowan, Jr., of McGowan & McGowan, Omaha, for appellant.

Michael D. McClellan, of Nelson McClellan, Omaha, for appellee.

HENDRY, C.J., WRIGHT, CONNOLLY, GERRARD, STEPHAN, McCORMACK, and MILLER-LERMAN, JJ.


CONNOLLY, J.

In this case, we must decide whether the Nebraska Probate Code requires the owner of a non-pay-on-death, single-party account to give his or her financial institution signed written notice to add a pay-on-death (POD) beneficiary to the account. Before his death, John Henry M. Chamberlin opened a single-party certificate of deposit account (CD) with no POD beneficiary at American National Bank (American National). Although there is some evidence that Chamberlin...

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