Free v. Bland

How courts have described this case

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• holding that state law must give way to Treasury Department regulations governing survivor-ship rights in U.S. bonds
• holding that federal law preempted application of Texas community property law in state probate proceedings
• concluding that federal law governs the interpretation of rights created by government bonds
• holding that Federal statutes and regulations “govern[ ] the interpretation ... of the rights and obligations created by the Government bonds” (quoting Bank of Am. Trust & Savs. Ass’n v. Parnell, 352 U.S. 29, 34, 77 S.Ct. 119, 1 L.Ed.2d 93 (1956))
• holding that rights to government bonds are determined by federal law
• determining that U.S. Savings Bonds standing in the name of husband “or” wife not subject to state community property laws

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).