In Re Estate of Peterson

Eugenia A. Peterson died February 5, 1983. A petition for formal probate of her will was filed in the county court for Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, and the will was admitted to probate on March 22, 1983. Decedent’s husband, Carl Peterson, filed a “Petition for Elective Share” in the probate proceedings in that court on August 3,1983, in which he elected “pursuant to Nebraska Probate Code Section 30-2317 to take one-half of the augmented estate of the decedent.” The copersonal representatives of decedent’s estate, decedent’s two sons from her previous marriage to LeRoy Abbott, filed an…