Chappell v. Perkins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding the surviving spouse’s signature on deed of conveyance insufficient because surviving spouse had not consented to a diminution of the decedent’s augmented estate
• applying the Statute to property transferred by the decedent during marriage
• “Legislation is presumed to effect a change in the law unless there is clear indication that the General Assembly intended that the legislation declare or explain existing law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).