384 So. 2d 317 - Stith v. Stith’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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1. “1. The wife may not assign the policies to anyone and shall have no right to borrow against the policies or to surrender them for their cash surrender value. 2. Should the wife die or remarry prior to the husband's death, ownership of the policies shall revert to the husband or his designee. 3. The parties shall cause the wife to be irrevocably designated beneficiary of the policies contingent upon her also being the owner of the policies at the husband's death; that is, if at the husband's death, the wife is living and has not remarried. Otherwise, the proceeds are to be payable to a beneficiary selected by the husband or, if none, to his estate. 4. The husband shall pay all premiums due on the policies and all interest due on the existing loans against the policies until the death or remarriage of the wife, or until his death, whichever shall first occur. 5. The parties shall cause a copy of the conditions of the award to be sent to each of the life insurance companies which issued the policies and shall file in the trial court an acknowledgment of receipt from each company. [ Id. at 321 ].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 184 N.J. Super. 430 - Davis v. Davis