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METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO. v. MELIN

No. 16-1172.

853 F.3d 410 (2017)

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff v. Kaye MELIN, Defendant-Appellant. Ashley Sveen; Antone Sveen, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: April 3, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant was Scott A. Wilson , of Minneapolis, MN. The following attorney(s) appeared on the appellant brief; Robert Lange , Bloomington, MN.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee was Daniel P. Doda , of Rochester, MN.

Before BENTON and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges, and EBINGER, District Judge.

Mark A. Sveen designated his then-wife, Kaye L. Melin, as the primary beneficiary of his life insurance policy, and his children as contingent beneficiaries. Later, Minnesota extended its revocation-upon-divorce statute to life insurance policies. The district court awarded the proceeds to the children, rejecting Melin's argument...

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