North v. North

VANCE, Judge.

The question is whether a widow is entitled to dower in property of her deceased husband in a case where the deceased husband and his former wife in a divorce settlement contracted to convey the property to their children and the contract was incorporated in the divorce judgment.

The question is similar to that posed in Wides v. Wides Executor, 299 Ky. 103, 184 S.W.2d 579 (1945). In Wides the contract was that the husband would execute a will devising his entire estate in equal parts to his former wife and their children. The husband did not make such a will and upon his death a…