Court Opinion

ID: 9675290
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:48:25.57059+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:15:58.044297
License: Public Domain

*408CADENA, Justice
(concurring).
I agree that the judgment below should be affirmed. However, I would not, in this case, use language restricting the right of partial renunciation to cases where there are “separate” and “distinct” gifts, as distinguished from a “single aggregate gift.” The right of partial renunciation should exist in all cases except where the testator indicates an intent that the beneficiary shall take all or none, or in cases where the exercise of the right would impose a burden on other recipients of the testator’s estate. The distinction between “separate” and “distinct” gifts, on the one hand, and a “single aggregate gift,” on the other, besides having all the earmarks of being slippery, can be productive of nothing other than judicial opinions replete with “nice” differentiations placing misdirected emphasis on the literary style of the draftsman rather than on the practical effect of the attempted renunciation.