If a person dies leaving a surviving spouse and a child or children, the surviving spouse shall be entitled, as part of dower or curtesy in his or her own right, to one-third (1/3) part of the personal estate whereof the deceased spouse died seized or possessed.Rev. Stat., ch. 52, § 20; C. & M. Dig., § 3535; Pope's Dig., § 4420; Acts 1981, No. 714, § 19; A.S.A. 1947, § 61-202.
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