Helms v. Darmstatter

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the word “absolute” did not permit the survivor to ignore the disposition to a family member; rather, the survivor only had an absolute right to the entire corpus for life, and at death the property passes in accordance with the terms of the will
• surviving spouse’s attempted testamentary transfers made three years after her husband’s death held invalid after her death years later because such transfers violated the expressed terms of their joint will
• surviving spouse's - 11 - attempted testamentary transfers made three years after her husband's death held invalid after her death years later because such transfers violated the expressed terms of their joint will

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).