In Re the Estate of Salvini

Shorett, J. †

Hazel Mary Salvini died leaving a will revoking all prior wills but making no disposition of her property. Thus, as far as her property is concerned, she died intestate. She left surviving her only her husband, Pete Salvini, and her mother, Margaret Scanlon.

Certain real property known as the “store property” was listed in the inventory and the petition for distribution as community property which, under our laws of descent, would require that it be distributed to the surviving husband. RCW 11.04.050.

The decedent’s mother, Margaret Scanlon, filed objections to the final report and…