ROCKLER v. SEVAREID

Nos. 95-PR-1626, 96-PR-204.

691 A.2d 97 (1997)

Walter J. ROCKLER, Personal Representative, et al., Appellants, v. Suzanne St. Pierre SEVAREID, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 20, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Richardson, Washington, DC, for appellants.

Max O. Truitt, Jr., with whom Stephen H. Sachs and Robert P. Stranahan, Jr., Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN and REID, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Senior Judge.


REID, Associate Judge:

The will of decedent Eric Sevareid was admitted to probate on July 27, 1992. Subsequently, on October 23, 1992, Mr. Sevareid's spouse, Suzanne St. Pierre Sevareid, filed a renunciation of the bequest made to her under the will and elected, instead, to take her statutory share of the estate pursuant to D.C.Code § 19-113(a) and (e) (1989 Repl.).1 Mrs. Sevareid's bequest...

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