KENNEDY, Justice.
The plaintiff/widow, Mittie Marie Posey, appeals from what she calls a denial of her family allowance claim. The family allowance provision of the Probate Code, Ala. Code 1975, § 43-8-112, provides inter alia, "a reasonable allowance" from a decedent's estate for the decedent's "surviving spouse ... whom the decedent was obligated to support ... for [the spouse's] maintenance during the period of administration."
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