A man dies testate, leaving a wife and minor son. He leaves all of his property to his son. His wife claims her elective share under the Uniform Probate Code. How will the man’s property be distributed?

The wife would not receive all of the property because the husband validly exercised his testamentary power over his separate property by leaving it to his son, and California law does not give a surviving spouse the right to override a will and claim all separate property simply by asserting a spousal claim.

A split distribution between wife and son would be the result under the Uniform Probate Code's elective share system, which allows a surviving spouse to claim a portion of the deceased's estate regardless of the will — but California has not adopted the UPC elective share, so this outcome does not apply in California.

While 'none to the wife' might seem correct if one assumes the husband's will controls everything, this answer is incomplete because it does not account for the wife's pre-existing community property rights — if any of the property was community property, she already owns half by operation of law and the will cannot divest her of it.