MATTER OF ESTATE OF ALLEN

No. 64600.

738 P.2d 142 (1987)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Jack Marvin ALLEN, Sr. Larry ALLEN, Appellant, v. Wilda Jean ALLEN, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

June 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crowley, Butler, Pickens & Martin by David C. Butler, Enid, for appellant.

Shirley, Stephenson, Shirley & Webber by Douglas Shirley, Watonga, for appellee.


HODGES, Justice.

This appeal arises from a decision declaring appellee to be the surviving spouse of the decedent and thereby entitled to participate in the estate of the decedent. The deceased, Jack Marvin Allen, Sr., married Wilda Jean (Sutton) Allen (appellee) in January of 1965. Three years later, the couple divorced. On September 28, 1969, Jack Allen and appellee remarried. A petition for divorce was filed in June of...

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