Matter of Estate of Gab

WUEST, Acting Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment and order which upheld as valid and enforceable a postnuptial agreement and denied appellant’s petition for an elective share of her husband’s estate, pursuant to SDCL 30-5A-6. We affirm.

Edwin (decedent) and Frances Gab (appellant) were married on August 2, 1974. Decedent had four children from a previous marriage, all of whom were adults when he married appellant. Appellant had also been married before and had seven children from that marriage. All but two of appellant’s children were adults when she married decedent.

Both individuals…