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MATTER OF ESTATE OF WILLARD

No. 3626.

600 P.2d 298 (1979)

93 N.M. 352

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Leoma Joyce Doss WILLARD, Deceased. Connie Royal PUGH Jr., Petitioner-appellee, v. Sparkye MABE, personal representative, Respondent-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

January 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Crider, Albuquerque, for respondent-appellant.

Dick A. Blenden, Paine, Blenden & Diamond, Carlsbad, John R. Lee, Kermit, Tex., for petitioner-appellee.

OPINION

WOOD, Chief Judge.

This interlocutory appeal in this probate case involves the validity of the trial court's ruling that Connie Royal Pugh, Jr. and Joyce, who died February 5, 1977, had entered a valid common-law marriage in Texas. The parties agree that New Mexico will recognize a common-law marriage as valid if the marriage was valid where consummated. Gallegos v. Wilkerson, 79 N.M. 549, 445...

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