2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 33 - Probate practice and procedure
CHAPTER 33-10 - Allowances to Families of Decedents
§ 33-10-1 - Wearing apparel and exempt personal property allowed to widow or widower and children.
SECTION 33-10-1
§ 33-10-1 Wearing apparel and exempt personal property allowed to widow or widower and children. – The wearing apparel of the widow or widower and minor children of a deceased person shall belong to them, respectively. The widow or widower shall be entitled, for herself or himself and for the family under her or his care, to such household effects, supplies, and, in addition thereto, such other personal property of the husband or wife exempt from attachment by law, as the probate court shall deem necessary, having regard to all the circumstances of the case; or, if there is no widow or widower the minor children shall be entitled to the household effects, or the use thereof, in such manner as the court shall direct.
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