IN THE MATTER OF RICE

No. 78-045.

118 N.H. 528 (1978)

IN THE MATTER OF ARTHUR W. RICE.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

July 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stebbins & Bradley, of Hanover (Daniel J. Connolly orally), for heirs at law.

William E. Lovejoy, of Lebanon, waives brief and oral argument for legatees.


DOUGLAS, J.

The issues in this case are whether a handwritten will that is ineffective as a will itself revokes an earlier will, and whether a divorce and property settlement, by implication of law, revokes all preexisting testamentary provisions for the divorced spouse and her natural family. These questions were answered in the negative by the Probate Judge (Jones, J.) who transferred the exceptions of the heirs at law.

In 1964 the decedent executed...

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