Mealey's (January 11, 2019, 10:19 AM EST) -- BOSTON — The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Jan. 8 vacated a probate court judge’s ruling denying competing motions for summary judgment filed by a decedent’s wife and his adult children, finding that Massachusetts General Law Chapter 191, Section 15, which is intended to prevent spousal disinheritance, reduces a surviving spouse’s interest in the decedent’s real property from outright ownership to a life estate when the surviving spouse's shares of the decedent's estate exceed $25,000 (Susan Ciani v. Brenda L. MacGrath, et al., No. SJC-12531, Mass. Sup., 2019 Mass. LEXIS 2)....