Matter of Estate of Mayors

HARTNETT, Vice Chancellor.

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This action results from the request of Steve C. Mayors for his surviving spouse’s allowance pursuant to 12 Del.C. § 2308. 1 Lucille Mayors died on July 16, 1975, and Steve C. Mayors, her estranged husband, filed the requisite written notice with the Executor and the Register of Wills on September 24, 1975, requesting his spouse’s allowance. This request was “allowed” by letter of the Register of Wills dated October 3, 1975, although I find no requirement in the Delaware Code that a spouse’s allowance must be “allowed” or approved by the Register of Wills. Four days…