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Wills-Revocation By Marriage Where Will Makes Nominal Bequest To Each Heir Not Mentioned, Elizabeth Durfee
Wills-Revocation By Marriage Where Will Makes Nominal Bequest To Each Heir Not Mentioned, Elizabeth Durfee
Michigan Law Review
Testatrix provided in her will that she intentionally omitted all of her heirs not specifically mentioned, "intending thereby to disinherit them," and provided further that "any such persons, or heirs, or any devisees or legatees" contesting the will should receive $1.00. She married after making the will, and this is a petition by the surviving husband to determine heirship. He claims an intestate share of the estate by virtue of a statutory provision that marriage revokes a will as to the surviving spouse "unless provision has been made for the spouse by marriage contract, or unless the spouse is provided …