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Barnett v. Barnett

A life insurance policy obtained through an employee benefit plan is community property; the Employee Retirement Income Security Act pre-empts a surviving wife's community property rights or the imposition of a constructive trust on policy proceeds to remedy a constructive fraud on the community.

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On Petitions for Review from the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas

Argued on January 12, 2000

Justice Owen delivered the opinion of the Court in Parts I, II, III, and V, in which Justice Hecht, Justice Enoch, Justice Jefferson, and Justice Rodriguez joined, and an opinion in Part IV in which Justice Hecht, Justice Jefferson, and Justice Rodriguez joined.

 
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