Legal Opinion
Romanski Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 11, 1946No. Appeal, 153PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Allen M. Steaene,
In the distribution of an intestate’s estate, is a claimant, as widow, barred from attacking the validity of a foreign divorce which she herself procured? The court below answered this question in the affirmative.
The decedent, a widower without children, on July 5, 1930, married the appellant, a widow with a child and issue of a deceased child. In 1933, the husband was committed to an institution for the insane, and in 1937, the wife was appointed guardian of his estate. He remained in the institution until his death on May 24, 1943. There was no issue…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Williams v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Esenwein v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. EsenweinSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Krause v. KrauseNew York Court of Appeals · 1940
- Querze v. QuerzeNew York Court of Appeals · 1943
- Matter of LindgrenNew York Court of Appeals · 1944
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Watt EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
- Unruh v. Industrial CommissionArizona Supreme Court · 1956
- In Re Anderson's EstateMontana Supreme Court · 1948
- Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Marshall's EstateCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1953
- Commonwealth ex rel. Bortin v. BortinSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
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