OPINION.
LEECH, Judge:
Respondent determined a deficiency in gift tax of $39,329.30 for the calendar year 1938. The issue is whether a payment of $222,643, made in property and money by petitioner in that year to his former wife in performance of his obligation to her under a contract settling property rights, entered into as an incident of their divorce proceedings, constituted a taxable gift.
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