Michigan Court of Appeals July 19, 2005, Docket No. 260866 (Bolen v. Lobaina)

Sawyer, J.

Famela Bolen and William Lobaina were divorced in 1991. Lobaina, who thereafter remarried, died on April 6, 2003. At the time of his death, the *417youngest child of the marriage, Amanda, was still a minor. Bolen filed a claim against Lobaina’s estate for $40,000, representing the amount of the proceeds of a life insurance policy provided by Lobaina’s employer.