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Section 560:1 – Making; Account.

    560:1 Making; Account. – The judge may make to the widow of the person deceased, intestate, or testate, a reasonable allowance out of the personal estate, for her present support; and, in the decree of distribution of the personal estate, the whole, or such part thereof as the judge may deem reasonable, shall be […]

Section 560:2 – Use of House, Etc.

    560:2 Use of House, Etc. – The widow may remain in the house of her husband forty days next after his death without being chargeable with rent therefor, and in the meantime shall have her reasonable sustenance out of the estate; and the same shall be taken into consideration by the judge in the […]

Section 560:3 – Dower and Curtesy Abolished.

    560:3 Dower and Curtesy Abolished. – I. Neither husband or wife, widower or widow, shall be vested with either choate or inchoate right of curtesy or dower in the real estate of his or her spouse. II, III. [Repealed.] Source. RS 165:3. CS 175:3. GS 183:2. GL 202:2. PS 195:3. PL 306:3. RL 359:3. […]

Section 560:10 – Distribution When Surviving Spouse Waives Testate Distribution.

    560:10 Distribution When Surviving Spouse Waives Testate Distribution. – Upon the death of either husband or wife, testate, and the surviving spouse has elected to waive the homestead right, if any, and the provisions of the will in his or her favor, if any, and has elected to claim his or her rights hereunder, […]