Judy Lynn Popa v. Mckinnon Lumber Co., Inc.

The appellant (mother of the three minor children of the deceased employee) contends that the trial court erred in not commuting the surviving childrens' benefits to a lump sum. The trial court ordered: 1) that the accrued death benefits be paid into the Circuit Court Clerk's office and held in trust for the three minor children until their eighteenth birthdays; and 2) the remaining benefits be paid to the clerk's office in bi-weekly installments to be invested and held in trust for the children's benefit.