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Last updated on Wednesday, May 24, 2006
(STATEHOUSE) - State Senator Connie Sipes says she plans to introduce legislation barring Hoosiers who murder their spouses from collecting benefits previously willed to them.
The New Albany democrat says the state would no longer automatically consider marital partners as the "next of kin" in cases of murder.
Sipes says she was struck by a case involving a man who killed his pregnant wife, only to have law dictate that the woman's mother ask the murderer's permission to bury her daughter.
The bill is modeled after similar legislation adopted in Kentucky where a person who kills their spouse automatically forfeits all property rights they would have received upon the death of their partner.
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