In re the Estate of Fredenthal

Joseph A. Cox, S.

Proceedings have been brought to determine the validity and effect of the widow’s exercise of her right of election, the extent of the claim of the decedent’s infant son against the estate under the provisions for his support made in a separation agreement, and the right of the said son to share in the estate, as an after-born child, by reason of the provisions of section 26 of the Decedent Estate Law.

The decedent executed his last will and testament on August 13,1944 and by its terms bequeathed his entire estate to his two then living children. The decedent and the…