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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="3-408" title_number="3" title_name="Intestate Succession and Statutory Shares" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Elective Share of Surviving Spouse">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An election to take an elective share under this subtitle:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Shall be in writing and signed by the surviving spouse or other person entitled to make the election under § 3–405 of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>Shall be filed in the court in which the personal representative of the decedent was appointed; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>If no personal representative of the decedent has been appointed, shall be filed in the court for the jurisdiction in which the venue would be proper under § 5–103 of this article.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notice of the filing of an election to take an elective share under paragraph (1) of this subsection may be delivered to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The trustee of each revocable trust of the decedent; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The person responsible for filing the estate tax return, if different from the trustee.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The election may be in the following form:</text>
    <text>“I, A.B., surviving spouse of C. D., late of the County (City) of………… elect to</text>
    <text>take my elective share of the decedent’s estate subject to election under § 3–403 of</text>
    <text>the Estates and Trusts Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    <text>……………………</text>
    <text>(Signature)”.</text>
  </level>
</section>
