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IN MATTER OF ESTATE OF LORD

No. 12510.

602 P.2d 1030 (1979)

93 N.M. 543

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Bernice Jarrott LORD, Deceased. Sue Clair HUGHES, Personal Representative of the Estate of Bernice Jarrott Lord, Petitioner, v. Robert W. LORD, Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

November 21, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, Alan K. Konrad, Albuquerque, for petitioner.

Jones, Gallegos, Snead & Wertheim, Steven L. Tucker, J.E. Gallegos, Santa Fe, for respondent.

OPINION

SOSA, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by petitioner, Sue Clair Hughes, for the formal probate of the will of her deceased sister, Bernice Jarrott Lord, and for appointment of Hughes as personal representative of decedent's estate. Decedent's husband, Robert W. Lord, objected to the formal probate of the will, contending that an oral antenuptial agreement whereby decedent allegedly agreed to leave all her property to Lord in return for his promise...

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