Kettering, C. Edgar

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Denver Law Review Volume 25 Issue 10 Article 3 June 2021 Widow's Allowance C. Edgar Kettering Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/dlr Recommended Citation C. Edgar Kettering, Widow's Allowance, 25 Dicta 240 (1948). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Denver Law Review at Digital Commons @ DU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Denver Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ DU. For more information, please contact jennifer.cox@du.edu,dig-commons@du.edu. Expense, however, is not the primary consideration. The importantthing is to develop a more efficient, more just administration and interpre-tation of laws, rules and regulations. This must be done within the frame-work of our Constitution, or we are in danger of losing by our own negligenceand indifference the important safeguards to individual liberties that areessential to our system of government. At a time when the false prophetsof foreign systems are boring for a foothold in the United States, it is noth,ing but folly to permit any weaknesses to develop in our own system.There is no question about it. The lawyer has a great responsibilityfor good government, both as a well-trained individual and as a member ofthe bar associations which can exercise leadership in this respect.It is a challenge to every attorney and every member of a bar associationto answer demands for his time as a public servant, to interpret and explainto the public the meaning of all types of new laws, and to work to checkthe spread of the administrative courts.The lawyer must consider himself not only a branch of the court, aspecialist in his own field, but also as an apostle of good government.New Members Admitted To Bar AssociationMiss Onalee Brown, Harold Dwight Lutz, Arnold Reeve Gilbert, Wood-ruff Anderson Morey, Willard Strong Snyder, Robert Hendricks Darden, JohnJoseph Weber, Theodore Jean Kuhlman, and Harold C. Greager.Widow's AllowanceBy C. EDGAR KETTERING, County fudgeFrom the frequency of my conferences with attorneys on the subject, Ithink it may not be amiss to comment on two phases of the law of widow'sallowance in estate matters:1. The case of Wigington v. Wigington, 112 Colo. 78 seems to havesettled the proposition that a petition for widow's allowance must, like anyother claim, be filed within six (6) months of the issuance of letters of admin-istration; the order for the allowance, or the widow's choice of property (cashor specific property) need not be made within such period. Such case alsostates that the petition should be sworn to and recite that the widow is aresident of Colorado. It would also be good practice for the petition to recitethe date of the issuance of letters.2. There seems to be some confusion as to the meaning of Sec. 211,Chapter 176, and the wording is not too clear. I believe the statute meansthat where the deceased left a widow only, or a widow and children born tosuch marriage, the allowance to the widow shall be $2,000.00, with nothingto the children. The division of $1,000.00 to the widow and $1,000.00 tominor children applies only where such children are the children of the de-ceased but not the children of the widow; in other words, are her step-children.DICTA240

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