Butcher's Estate
Butcher's Estate
Opinion of the Court
Florence Addicks is a daughter of the late J. Edward Addicks and his wife, Laura Butcher Addicks. After her death he married her sister, Rosalie Butcher, from whom he was divorced and whose name was changed from Addicks to Butcher by an act of the legislature of
Decree affirmed.
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- Taxation — Collateral inheritance tax — Exemption — Child of former husband — Stepchildren—Divorce of parent and stepparent —Act of April 22, 1905, P. L. 258. The exemption from collateral inheritance tax of bequests to children of a “former husband or wife”' as provided by the Act of April 22, 1905, P. L. 258, applies to a gift by a stepmother to her stepdaughter, although the father and stepmother had been divorced, .and the legatee was described in the will as “my niece and daughter of my heart.” The legatee, although a niece of testatrix, was still a child of her “former husband.”