ESTATE OF GAGNIER

Docket No. E010912.

21 Cal.App.4th 124 (1993)

26 Cal. Rptr.2d 128

Estate of LAWRENCE J. GAGNIER, Deceased. LAWRENCE J. GAGNIER, JR., et al., Petitioners and Appellants, v. NANCY J. GAGNIER, Objector and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

December 20, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Redwine & Sherrill, Gary E. Reddish and Robert T. Andersen, Jr., for Petitioners and Appellants.

Robert C. Bergen for Objector and Appellant.


[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]

OPINION

HOLLENHORST, J.

In this case we hold that a spouse's waiver of her right to take the statutory share of a spouse omitted in her husband's will is valid when the waiver is contained in a premarital agreement.

The trial court found the waiver ineffective because the spouse was not represented...

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