This decedent was stabbed to death by his paramour. She is the named beneficiary of a small insurance policy on his life. The Public Administrator, in his petition to settle this account, requests the court to determine who is entitled to the proceeds.
The killer is not a distributee. We do not have here the question whether a killer may either as a distributee or legatee benefit from the estate of his victim. (See Matter...
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