Adams v. Adams

Weltner, Justice.

This is an appeal from a superior court judgment declaring inter alia that Georgia year’s support law (Code Ann. § 113-1001 et seq.) is void ab initio, in that prior to the 1979 amendment it worked discrimination on the basis of sex.

Robert Adams died on July 11, 1979, leaving a will which provides as follows:

“I will, give, devise and bequeath unto my wife Gladys Fleming Adams a life estate in all my property, both real and personal... and it is my further desire that in the event the rents, profits, issues, interests and income from the assets of my estate is inadequate to…