Leonardo Yama’s Life Insurance Benefits Explained

In an update to a story that we ran on June fifth, involving a distraught mother of two who claims that her children are shut out of her dead husband’s life insurance benefits, News Five understands that Claudia Yama had successfully applied for and was granted legal separation from Leonardo Yama Senior prior to his death in April of last year.  As such, the former police officer left his life insurance benefits to his sister.  His decision to do so cannot be breached by his estranged wife.  The insurance documents presented to us do not indicate that the late Mister Yama left any legal, contractual, equitable, fiduciary or moral obligation on his sister to care for his widow or his children.  Accordingly, it is wholly up to Claudia Yama’s sister-in-law whether she wishes to share anything with her niece and nephew.