{"id":19433,"date":"2023-05-23T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T09:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxinjurylaw.com\/?p=19018"},"modified":"2023-06-22T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:39:17","slug":"beneficiaries-in-a-wrongful-death-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdxinjurylaw.com\/es\/beneficiaries-in-a-wrongful-death-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneficiarios en un caso de homicidio culposo"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wrongful death claim is brought by a Portland wrongful death lawyer<\/a> for the benefit of certain “beneficiaries.” Exactly who qualifies as a “beneficiary” is defined by the law.<\/p>\n

Note that the person who can “bring the lawsuit” is not the same as the people who can “benefit from the lawsuit.” The \u201cbeneficiaries\u201d are the people who are allowed to receive money from a wrongful death lawsuit after the claim has been brought by the personal representative.<\/p>\n

Here’s who the law says can be a beneficiary of a wrongful death lawsuit: “spouse, surviving children, surviving parents and other individuals, if any, who under the law of intestate succession of the state of the decedent\u2019s domicile would be entitled to inherit the personal property of the decedent, and for the benefit of any stepchild or stepparent whether that stepchild or stepparent would be entitled to inherit the personal property of the decedent or not.”<\/p>\n

That’s a mouthful. What does it really mean?<\/p>\n

Well, the decedent\u2019s husband or wife, children, parents, stepchildren, and stepparents are all entitled to some of the proceeds from a wrongful death claim. That much is certain.<\/p>\n

In addition, anyone who state law would allow to collect may also be a beneficiary. Which state law? The law of the state where the decedent was legally \u201cdomiciled\u201d at the time of his or her death. Legal domicile is almost always where the person lived. If that state is Oregon, the beneficiaries are listed in ORS 112.025-112.055. They are: spouse, children, parents. If there is no living spouse, children, or parents, then and only then, brothers and sisters may collect. If all brothers and sisters have also passed away, then their children may be beneficiaries. If none of these people are alive, then grandparents, or children of grandparents.<\/p>\n

This can get complicated sometimes. But in most cases, it’s not complicated. In most cases, any money from a wrongful death case gets split among the spouse, children (including stepchildren), and parents (including stepparents). It is only when none of these relatives are alive that all the rest of the complexity comes in.<\/p>\n

How is the money shared? If a man dies leaving behind a widow, two children, and his mother, how is any money split? Ideally, this is determined by agreement of all the beneficiaries and the personal representative, and if the decedent left a will, the terms of that will can sometimes matter as well. If all the beneficiaries can agree (and if the children are 18 or over \u2013 more on this soon), then the split they agree upon will usually work just fine. A judge has to approve the split, but a judge will almost always go along with a split that is agreed upon by everyone with a legal right to the proceeds.<\/p>\n

If any of the beneficiaries is under 18 years old, then a judge may appoint a lawyer as a conservator to represent each child in negotiating the apportionment. This is not always necessary; sometimes the minor\u2019s parent can negotiate on behalf of the child, and so long as it is done fairly, the judge will allow it.<\/p>\n

If all beneficiaries cannot agree on how to split the proceeds, then each person can argue his or her case to the judge. The standard that the judge will use is that the proceeds should be apportioned \u201cin accordance with the beneficiary\u2019s loss.\u201d What exactly that means is left to the judge\u2019s discretion, which can be not only frustrating, but also destructive, because it leaves the mourning survivors to fight about who was closer to the deceased person, and about who \u201clost\u201d more when the person died. It is always best to avoid this fight if possible, but it only takes one unreasonable beneficiary to make such a fight necessary, and when that happens, every person will probably end up with his or her own attorney.<\/p>\n

This idea of apportioning according to \u201cthe loss sustained\u201d can result in very different distributions in different cases. For example, in one case, Williams v. Cover, <\/em>74 Or App 711, 704 P2d 548 (1985), a 19-year old woman died, leaving her parents, who had divorced when she was six, as the only beneficiaries. The court divided the proceeds between her two parents 50-50, even though her mother was the custodial parent and her father was behind in making his child support payments. Dad had exercised his visitation rights and was close to his daughter, and the judge said that the \u201closs sustained\u201d is \u201cnot necessarily measured by the quality of parenting.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then in another similar case, Oak v. Pattie, <\/em>86 Or App 299, 303, 739 P2d 61 (1987), the court gave 100% of the money to the mother, because dad had only seen his daughter five times in the past 15 years. The judge went out of his way to say that the award \u201cis not a mechanism to punish an irresponsible parent, but to allocate according to actual loss,\u201d and the judge decided that a father who\u2019s only seen his daughter five times in the past 15 years hadn\u2019t lost anywhere near as much as her mother, who\u2019d raised her daughter.<\/p>\n

To summarize, proceeds will usually be split among the spouse, children, and parents of the decedent. \u201cChildren\u201d includes stepchildren, and \u201cparents\u201d includes stepparents. If none of these people are still alive, then it will get complicated. If the person who passed away lived in a state other than Oregon, then that state\u2019s law has to be consulted. If all the beneficiaries can agree on the amounts of the split, then the judge will usually approve the agreed-upon split. Please reach out to a abogado de lesiones personales en Portland<\/a> para saber m\u00e1s.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Una demanda por homicidio culposo es presentada por un abogado de homicidio culposo de Portland para el beneficio de ciertos \"beneficiarios\". Exactamente quien califica como \"beneficiario\" es definido por la ley. 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