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CHAPTER 191 AN ACT INCREASING THE DISTRIBUTIVE SHARE OF THE ESTATE OF A DECEASED PERSON TO WHICH THE SURVIVING SPOUSE IS ENTITLED WHERE THERE IS KINDRED AND NO ISSUE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Paragraph (1) of section 1 of chapter 190 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 8, 10, 12 and 25, the word "fifty" and inserting in place thereof, in each instance, the words:- two hundred.

SECTION 2. This act shall apply only to estates of persons dying on or after January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

Approved July 8, 1986.