HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1595

FOR the purpose of increasing the amount of the family
allowance available to the surviving members of a
family in testate and intestate estates.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Estates and Trusts

Section 3-201

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1980 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article - Estates and Trusts

3-201.

(a)  The surviving spouse is entitled to receive an
allowance of [$1,000] $5,000 $6,000 $2,000 for his personal
use, and an additional allowance of [$500] $1,000 for the
use of each unmarried child of the decedent who has not
attained the age of 18 years at the time of the death of the
decedent. Upon receipt of an allowance for an unmarried
child under 18 years of age of the decedent who is not also
a child of the surviving spouse, the surviving spouse shall
distribute that allowance as provided in § 13-501 of this
article.

(b)  The allowance, which is available in both testate
and intestate estates, is exempt from the Maryland
inheritance tax.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 12, 1981.

CHAPTER 290

(Senate Bill 503)

AN ACT concerning

Mortgage Foreclosure - Notice to Subordinate Interest

FOR the purpose of allowing holders of subordinate interests
in real property to record a request for notice of
sale; requiring holders of superior interests in real
property to give notice of foreclosure sale to
subordinate holders who have recorded a request for