Estate of Cox
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
McEWEN, Judge:
This appeal was taken from the final decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County in which the learned Judge Harriet M. Mims ordered the Administrator of the Cox Estate to distribute the assets of the estate to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pursuant to Section 2103(6) of the Intestate Succession Act. 1 Appellants argue that Section 2103(5) of the intestacy statute, which creates two classifications of relatives in the fifth degree of consan guinity with a decedent and permits members of only one of these classifications to inherit, violates the Equal Protection clause…
2Cases cited44 opinions
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- Vance v. BradleySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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- Commonwealth v. GamberSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
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