In re the Estate of Goodman

The executors of a deceased, surviving widow, who had exchanged waivers of rights of election in their respective estates with her affianced husband, assert that the widow’s waiver, upon which the estate of the deceased husband relies, is invalid for lack of due acknowledgment. After trial before the Surrogate, the waiver was sustained, and it was held, that the widow had had no right of election in the estate of her deceased husband. The decree should be affirmed.

The husband and wife, both of whom are now dead, were planning to enter into what was a second marriage for each. Each was of…