Matter of Estate of Kroslack

HOFFMAN, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Joseph F. Kroslack, Jr. as personal representative of the estate of his father, Joseph Kroslack, Sr., appeals a trial court award of costs, attorney’s fees and interest in favor of appellee Mary L. Kros-lack, the decedent’s widow. The award followed several years of litigation at both the trial and appellate levels during which appellee sought to recover the statutory widow’s allowance of $8,500.00. See Kroslack v. Estate of Kroslack (1987), Ind., 504 *119N.E.2d 1024, vacating Ind.App., 489 N.E.2d 650. The Supreme Court's opinion in Kroslack found:

“[T]he son…