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IN RE TRUST UNDER DEED OF KULIG

No. 97 MAP 2016.

175 A.3d 222 (2017)

IN RE: TRUST UNDER DEED OF DAVID P. KULIG DATED JANUARY 12, 2001. Appeal of: Carrie C. Budke and James H. Kulig.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: December 19, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam T. Gusdorff, Esq. , Margaret E.W. Sager, Esq. , Heckscher Teillon Terrill & Sager, P.C., John T. Stinson Jr., Esq. , for Carrie C. Budke and James H. Kulig, Appellant.

Richard Danese Jr., Esq. , Stuckert and Yates, Jessica L. VanderKam, Esq. , for Mary Jo Kulig, Appellee.

Gerald E. Darling, Esq. , Tara Hagopian Zane, Esq. , Archer & Greiner, P.C., for Pasquale Hamel, Appellee.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.

OPINION

This Commonwealth has a "long existing public policy ... to protect the rights of [a surviving spouse]" against total disinheritance by his or her deceased spouse. In re Pengelly's Estate, 374 Pa. 358, 97 A.2d 844, 849 (1953).1

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