The issue dispositive of this appeal is: May a surviving spouse who elects to take against the will of her husband, be required to contribute to the federal estate tax? We answer in the negative.
Davis Bovaird died in 1979, leaving his wife and three children. Declaring she had ample means in her own right, the decedent intentionally made no provision in his will for his wife except for certain specific...
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