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2013 District of Columbia Code
Division III — DECEDENTS' ESTATES AND FIDUCIARY RELATIONS
Title 19 — DESCENT, DISTRIBUTION, AND TRUSTS
Chapter 1 — RIGHTS OF SURVIVING SPOUSE OR DOMESTIC PARTNER, AND CHILDREN
- Section 19-101 — Family allowance; construction; penalties. [Repealed]
- Section 19-101.01 — Applicable law.
- Section 19-101.02 — Homestead allowance.
- Section 19-101.03 — Exempt property.
- Section 19-101.04 — Family allowance.
- Section 19-101.05 — Source, determination, and documentation; equitable apportionment when minor children are not in custody of the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner.
- Section 19-101.06 — Penalties.
- Section 19-102 — Dower and curtesy abolished.
- Section 19-103 — Forfeiture of dower by desertion and adultery. [Repealed]
- Section 19-104 — Absent or incompetent spouse. [Repealed]
- Section 19-105 — Jointure before marriage as bar to dower. [Repealed]
- Section 19-106 — Jointure after marriage; election. [Repealed]
- Section 19-107 — Effect of acts of one spouse. [Repealed]
- Section 19-107a — Release of dower. [Repealed]
- Section 19-108 — Recovery of dower withheld; damages. [Repealed]
- Section 19-109 — Recovery of dower obtained by default or collusion; damages. [Repealed]
- Section 19-110 — Assignment by guardian; rights of heir. [Repealed]
- Section 19-111 — Reendowment upon eviction from jointure. [Repealed]
- Section 19-112 — Devise or bequest to a spouse or domestic partner.
- Section 19-113 — Renunciation of devises and bequests; election; time limitations; renunciation or election by guardian or fiduciary; maximum rights; effect of no devise or bequest or if nothing passes under either; antenuptial or postnuptial agreements.
- Section 19-114 — Right of surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner if there is no renunciation.
- Section 19-115 — Definitions.
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