Matter of Estate of Kueber

OPINION

HUSPENI, Judge.

Respondent Ruth Beetham petitioned to renounce decedent Bernard Kueber’s will and to elect to take her statutory share of the estate as decedent’s spouse. The trial court granted the petition. Decedent’s brother and personal representative of the estate, Duane Kueber, appeals. We affirm.

FACTS

Respondent Ruth Beetham and decedent Bernard Kueber were married in Texas in 1945. They had five children, one of whom died as a young child in 1957. The family moved to Minnesota in 1946 and then to Colorado in 1955. In 1957, decedent abandoned the family. After that time, other…