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  • PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
    (Chapters 183 through 210)
  • TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
  • CHAPTER 196 ALLOWANCES TO WIDOWS AND CHILDREN, AND ADVANCEMENTS
  • Section 1 Apparel and ornaments; rent-free possession of house

[ Text of section effective until March 31, 2012. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 15. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44 as amended by 2010, 409, Sec. 23 and 2011, 224.]

  Section 1. Articles of apparel and ornaments of the surviving spouse and minor children of a deceased person shall belong to them respectively. The surviving spouse may remain in the house of a deceased spouse for not more than six months next succeeding the death without being chargeable for rent.