Effect of divorce, abandonment, or refusal to support upon rights to distributive share

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  • No distributive share of the estate of a decedent shall be allowed under the provisions of this chapter, either—
    • (1) to a spouse against whom or in whose favor a final decree or judgment of divorce recognized as valid by the law of this territory has been rendered; or

    • (2) to a spouse who has procured without this territory a final decree or judgment dissolving the marriage with the decedent, where such decree or judgment is not recognized as valid by the law of this territory; or

    • (3) to a husband who has neglected or refused to provide for his wife, or has abandoned her; or

    • (4) to a wife who has abandoned her husband; or

    • (5) in the estate of a child to a parent who has neglected or refused to provide for such child during infancy or who has abandoned such child during infancy whether or not such child dies during infancy, unless the parental relationship and duties are subsequently resumed and continue until the death of the child.

      If the spouse or parent is deprived of a distributive share in the estate of a decedent by the provisions of this section the estate of such decedent shall be distributed, in accordance with the other provisions of this chapter, as though such spouse or parent had predeceased the decedent.


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