Security Pacific National Bank v. Kazian

*800Opinion

KAUS, P. J.

Petitioner, executor of the will of Angelen Gendian Razian, filed a petition for a decree determining the interests in decedent’s estate. Its purpose was to determine whether decedent’s surviving husband, Onig (Bill) Razian, had forfeited his interest in the estate under a no-contest clause in the will. The probate court found that Razian had contested decedent’s disposition of her estate and that he was therefore entitled to take only the sum of $1 under the will. Razian appeals.

Facts

Decedent married Razian in October 1954, sometime after her first husband died. At the…