IN RE ESTATE OF PATTON

No. 991-1.

6 Wn. App. 464 (1972)

494 P.2d 238

In the Matter of the Estate of JOHN GEORGE PATTON, Deceased. RONALD G. PATTON et al., Appellants, v. MILDRED PATTON, Respondent.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One — Panel 2.

February 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perkins, Coie, Stone, Olsen & Williams and Theodore J. Collins, for appellants.

Edwards E. Merges and Robert H. Larson, for respondent.


SWANSON, J.

Does Washington community property law prohibit a husband from devising the whole interest in any specific item of community property, notwithstanding that by the terms of his will his surviving spouse receives one-half or more of the community estate when it is considered in the aggregate? That is the primary question presented in this appeal. We answer it in the affirmative.

The respondent Mildred Patton and John George Patton were married January...

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