Rouse v. Rouse

Citations

• 76 Kan. 311
• 91 P. 45
• 1907 Kan. LEXIS 256

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Husband and Wipe — Descents and Distributions — Antenuptial Agreement. An antenuptial agreement provided that the property -owned by either party should, after the marriage, remain the separate and distinct property of such owner, and neither should have or exercise any right, title or estate in the property of the other, and each might at his or her option dispose of such property by will or otherwise, except that the husband should not during the lifetime of the wife so dispose of his property as to jeopardize or render nugatory a subsequent provision for her benefit, by which he agreed to furnish her proper and comfortable support so long as they lived together as husband and wife, or, in ease she survived him,-so long as she remained his widow. After living together thirty years the husband died intestate. Held, that the agreement did not exclude the widow from her right of inheritance in the husband’s property.</p>