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IN RE ESTATE OF ESTES

No. 2011-CA-01451-COA.

111 So.3d 1223 (2012)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Joe Howard ESTES, Deceased: Greg Estes and Jeff Estes, Appellants v. Sarah Estes, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied April 30, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T.K. Moffett , attorney for appellants.

Rhett R. Russell , attorney for appellee.

EN BANC.

MAXWELL, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. The Mississippi Legislature has conferred upon widows and widowers a statutory allowance of one year's support for maintenance of the surviving spouse and children. But to receive this so called "widow's allowance," the surviving spouse must show he or she was supported by the decedent. Here, Sarah Young Estes (Young) was widowed when her husband, Joe Howard Estes (Estes), to whom she had only been married for nine months, died...

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