Pease v. Whitlatch

Title 84 O.S.1961, § 151, provides that a will is to be construed according to the intention of the testator. The Legislature, by enactment of Title 84 O.S.1961, § 132, unequivocally, placed a burden upon a testator, if he intends to omit to provide in his will for any of his children or for the issue of a deceased child, to make it appear that such omission was intentional.

Although our general statutory provisions do not prohibit a testator from omitting to provide for a child, or the issue of a deceased child, section 132, supra, does place a limitation upon the manner in which a child or…