Husband Kills Wife, But His Family Inherits From Her Estate
DECEMBER 10, 2001 VOLUME 9, NUMBER 24 In April of 1998 Edward M. Covert shot and killed his wife Kathleen, and then killed himself. Out of that family tragedy arose an interesting legal problem: who would inherit Kathleen Covert’s estate? Mr. and Mrs. Covert lived and died in New York, but the legal problem was […]