IN RE ESTATE OF SHARP


163 N.J. Super. 148 (1978)

394 A.2d 381

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIE J. SHARP, DECEASED.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided October 17, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Backes and Backes, attorneys for plaintiff-appellant (Mr. Michael J. Nizolek, of counsel and on the brief).

Mr. George Warren, attorney for S.O., defendant-respondent.

Mr. W. Marshall Prettyman, Deputy Director, Rutgers Legal Aid Clinic, submitted a brief for amici curiae, Essex-Newark Legal Services Corp. and American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (Mr. Patrick C. English on the brief).

Before Judges LORA and LARNER.


The opinion of the court was delivered by LARNER, J.A.D.

The trial judge, in an opinion reported at 151 N.J.Super. 579, invoked the legislative mandate of N.J.S.A. 3A:3-10 and held that a will of testator Willie J. Sharp was void because it failed to mention or make provision for his afterborn child, S.O., who survived him. As a consequence a judgment was entered denying...

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