In Re Collopy’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[T]he word “dependent” [in the Ohio exemption statute] is not limited to financial dependence, but extends as well, at least in circumstances such as those present in this case, to a situation where the purpose of the insurance is to provide for a substitute means of caring for a dependent. To adopt the narrow interpretation of “dependent” urged by the trustee in this case would be to ignore the financial implications which would follow in the event that the insured here died and the beneficiary collected the proceeds of the policy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Rigdon