This proceeding is brought to determine the validity and effect of the widow's election to take against the provisions of the will (Surrogate's Ct. Act, § 145-a; Decedent Estate Law, § 18).
The will leaves to the widow all personal and household effects and places one half of the residuary in trust for her benefit and the remaining one half in a separate trust for the testator...
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