Oral Contract to Will or Oral Charitable Pledge?

Before dying intestate, decedent orally pledged estate to charitable institution.  Court found that the pledge was not enforceable as a charitable pledge, meaning it was an oral contract to will, which was eliminated under PEF 2701.  Stein Estate, 4 Fid. Rep. 3d 218 (O.C. Mont. 2014) (Opinion by Ott, J.)

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