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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 264

AN ACT concerning

Estates and Trusts - Intestate Succession

FOR the purpose of changing the share that a surviving
spouse receives from the estate under certain
circumstances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Estates and Trusts

Section 3-102

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1981 Supplement)

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

Article - Estates and Trusts

3-102.

(a)  The share of a surviving spouse shall be as
provided in this section.

(b)  If there is [also a surviving issue] A SURVIVING
MINOR CHILD, the share shall be one half.

(C) IF THERE IS NO SURVIVING MINOR CHILD, BUT THERE IS
SURVIVING ISSUE, THE SHARE SHALL BE THE FIRST $15,000 PLUS
ONE-HALF OF THE RESIDUE.

[(c)] (D) If there is no surviving issue but a
surviving parent, the share shall be [one half] THE FIRST
$15,000 PLUS ONE-HALF OF THE RESIDUE.

[(d)] (E) If there is no surviving issue or parent,
the share shall be the whole estate.

[(e)] (F) For the purposes of this section, the net
estate shall be calculated without a deduction for the tax
as defined in § 11-109.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 20, 1982.