In Re Estate of Offield

This appeal involves the validity of an order in probate proceedings setting aside certain items of separate and community property, including a one-half interest in a real estate contract, to satisfy an award in lieu of homestead and ordering the “remaining one-half interest” in the real estate contract distributed to a specific legatee under the decedent’s nonintervention will.

James W. Offield died July 27, 1970. He left surviving the petitioner, Vickie D. Offield, his second wife, and Barbara Wettland, his daughter of a prior marriage. By his nonintervention will, he named his surviving…