The trial court granted Adkins partial summary judgment as to the life insurance benefits, which this court affirmed in an earlier opinion. Stephens v. Adkins, 214 Ga. App. 653 ( 448 S.E.2d 734) (1994). The trial court then granted summary judgment to Adkins on the inheritance issue as well, from which Stephens now appeals.
hose son was murdered by his wife had standing, as a parent, to assert a § 1983 claim for the wrongful death of her son in violation of his constitutional rights, where the spouse-murderer was precluded from recover)' under state law); Belluso v. Tant, 258 Ga. App. 453, 455-56 (2002) (Exercise of superior court's equitable powers was warranted to allow decedent's father the right to sue decedent's husband for wrongful death following fatal automobile accident in which husband was the driver, even though the surviving spouse ordinarily has the sole right to bring a wrongful death claim; husband could not bring an action against himself, legislature expressed its intent to provide right of recovery in every case of the homicide of a child who does not leave a spouse or a child, and a contrary holding would have left decedent's father with no remedy at law and would have allowed husband to go unpenalized), rationale expressly approved in Carringer v. Rodgers, 276 Ga. 359, 363-64 (2003); Stephens v. Adkins, 214 Ga. App. 653, 654 (1994) (son convicted of voluntary manslaughter of his father could not recover as co-beneficiary under father's life insurance policy), cited in Ann., Killing of insured by beneficiary as affecting life insurance or its proceeds, 27 A.L.R.3d 794 § 6 (1969) ("Where the insured's death is caused by the beneficiary unintentionally or not feloniously, it has been generally held that the latter can recover the proceeds of the insurance policy"). The ban against permitting one to benefit from one's wrongdoing, of course, is nothing new and extends beyond the insurance context.