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1993, against the estate in the Texas Probate Court in which she
claimed inter alia that she was entitled to 100 percent of the
insurance proceeds of the four policies mentioned above, both
because she was a 50-percent owner of the policies under Texas
community property law, and because she had been originally
designated as sole beneficiary by decedent, but such designation
had been changed by decedent's actual or constructive fraud.
On June 14, 1991, Mrs. Street then filed an election in the
probate proceedings in Texas not to take under decedent's will,
but rather to take her share of community property.
Shortly thereafter, on August 6, 1991, a declaratory
judgment action was brought by Anne Street Skipper
(coadministratrix) and her brother against Mrs. Street in the
Texas District Court, controverting Mrs. Street's claim in the
probate proceeding and asking for a holding as to decedent's
children's rights versus Mrs. Street's rights with respect to
decedent's estate. In addition to controverting other claims
made by Mrs. Street against decedent's estate, the claim for
declaratory judgment by Anne Street Skipper specifically
contested Mrs. Street's claim to any portion of the life
insurance proceeds, on the grounds that decedent's estate had
specifically been made sole beneficiary, the policies were not
community property but were separate property of decedent, who
was the sole owner thereof, and that the change of beneficiary by
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