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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="3-402" title_number="3" title_name="Intestate Succession and Statutory Shares" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Elective Share of Surviving Spouse">
  <text>The purposes of this subtitle are:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>To ensure that a surviving spouse is reasonably provided for during the surviving spouse’s remaining lifetime; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Subject to item (1) of this section, to provide a testator flexibility in ordering the testator’s affairs.</text>
  </level>
</section>
