City of Laddonia v. Poor

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• noting the family court has exclusive jurisdiction to determine the existence of a common-law marriage when the ultimate issue is the existence of a common-law marriage rather than heirship
• explaining courts may use the doctrine of reasonable expectations to interpret a policy if the terms “are ambiguous or conflicting, or if the policy contains a hidden trap or pitfall, or if the fine print takes away that which has been given by the large print”
• “[W]e decline to apply the doctrine where a contract of insurance unambiguously denies coverage under its plain terms.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).