COZORT, Judge.
The sole question before us is whether a surviving spouse is entitled to dissent from the will of her deceased spouse, as a matter of law, on the ground that a trust in which the surviving spouse is given a life estate only without a general power of appointment cannot be valued for the purposes of N.C.Gen.Stat. § 30-1. We hold that the life interest can be valued, and we therefore reverse the trial court's order of summary judgment, which had...
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