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Persons enumerated in Articles 195197, and 199 of the Family Code are
Article 194. Support comprises
everything indispensable for sustenance,
dwelling, clothing, medical attendance,
education and transportation, in keeping
with the financial capacity of the family.
Amount of Support:
In proportion to the resources or the
means of the giver and to the
necessities of the recipient (Art. 201
Family Code)
Pecuniary Interest or Business
Relationship:
Pecuniary interest must be
recognized by law
Types of Beneficiaries:
1. Primary and Contingent
2. Specific and Class
3. Revocable and Irrevocable
Primary and Contingent
Primary entitled to the proceeds of the
policy upon the death of the insured but such
rights expire if the beneficiary dies before
the insured
Contingent (Secondary) entitled to the
proceeds if the primary beneficiary has
predeceased the insured
Specific and Class
Specific identified by name and
relationship
Class group of individuals (ex. children of
the insured)
Revocable and Irrevocable
Revocable
The policy owner reserves the right
to change the beneficiary
Only has an expectation of benefits
Owner of the policy can exercise any
of the policy rights without the
consent of the revocable beneficiary
Irrevocable
Must be an interest
o Real or personal
o Or any relation thereto
o Or liability in respect thereof
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A. Existing interest
May be a legal or an equitable title
B. Inchoate interest
Inchoate interest must be founded
on an existing interest
Examples:
o Stockholder in the property
of the corporation of which
he is a stockholder, which is
founded on an existing
interest arising from his
ownership of shares in the
corporation (his insurable
interest is limited to the
extent of the value or to his
share in the distribution of the
corporate assets upon
dissolution)
The stockholder has
neither legal nor
equitable title to the
assets of the
corporation
Examples:
o Farmer may insure future
crops to be grown on land
owned by him at the time of
issuance of the policy
o Farmer may insure crops
even if the land is not his,
provided that the crops raised
by him belongs to him
o Owner of a business may
insure against a contingency
which may cause loss of
profits resulting from the
cessation or interruption of
his business
Property of father/son/spouse
A father cannot insure his sons
property nor can a son insure the
property that he expects to inherit
from his father, as his interest is
merely an expectancy of inheriting.
(Baldwin v. State Insurance Co. 15
NW 300)
Life of parents/children/spouses
Parents, children, and spouses are
under mutual obligation to support
each other; hence, may insure the life
of the other
Property of debtor
A general or unsecured creditor
cannot insure specific property of a
debtor who is alive, even though
destruction of such property would
render worthless any judgment he
might obtain
But an unsecured creditor may insure
the property of a deceased debtor
since all personal liability ceases
with the debt of the debtor
An unsecured creditor who obtains
judgment in his favor and becomes a
judgment creditor, has insurable
interest in the debtors property since
he has a right to levy on such
property as may be necessary to
satisfy the judgment.
One named as beneficiary in a will
has no insurable interest in a
property designated before the
testators death
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Section 17. The measure of an insurable
interest in property is the extent to which
the insured might be damnified by loss or
injury thereof.
Extent
Insurable
interest in
life
insurance
Unlimited
(except in
life
Insurable
interest in
property
insurance
Limited to
the actual
value of the
insurance
effected by
a creditor on
the life of a
debtor)
Expectation of Need not
benefit to be
have any
derived
legal basis
Time when
Must exist
insurable
at the time
interest must
of the
exist
effectivity
of the policy
and need not
exist at the
time of the
loss
interest
broken
Must be
based on a
legal right
Must exist
at the time
of the
effectivity
of the policy
and when
the loss
occurs, but
need not
exist in the
meantime
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Section 20. Except in the cases specified in
the next four sections, and in the cases of
life, accident, and health insurance, a
change of interest in any part of a thing
insured unaccompanied by a
corresponding change in interest in the
insurance, suspends the insurance to an
equivalent extent, until the interest in the
thing and the interest in the insurance are
vested in the same person.
Sec. 21. A change in interest in a thing
insured, after the occurrence of an injury
which results in a loss, does not affect the
right of the insured to indemnity for the
loss.
Sec. 22. A change of interest in one or
more several distinct things, separately
insured by one policy, does not avoid the
insurance as to the others.
Sec. 23. A change on interest, by will or
succession, on the death of the insured,
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