Court Opinion

ID: 9608773
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:17:14.079203+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:02:47.415395
License: Public Domain

NEELY, Justice,
concurring:
I agree with the majority on the facts of this case, and I agree that the Legislature intended to change the way in which wrongful death proceeds are distributed. I have no problem with wrongful death victims who die intestate; however, I worry about wills, particularly when specific bequests are made, leaving a residuary beneficiary who was expected by the testator to *409inherit very little. Consequently, in subsequent cases I would vote to revisit this entire subject in a case where: (1) the wrongful death victim wrote a will predicated on a small estate; and, (2) it is obvious from the will’s own provisions that had the wrongful death victim anticipated the wrongful death proceeds, he would have disposed of them differently.