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Probate Law Appellate Court Opinion

by Carey, Sean

 

AC47053 - Moore v. Bryant-Mitchell (“The plaintiff, Larry Allen Moore, appeals from the judgment of the Superior Court removing him as the executor of the estate of the decedent, Clifton Dewayne Bryant. On appeal, the plaintiff claims that the Superior Court, in adjudicating his appeal from the decree of the Probate Court granting a petition filed by the defendant, Chelsea Bryant-Mitchell, to remove him as executor, improperly (1) limited the scope of its review to the Probate Court’s removal of the plaintiff as executor and, as a result, failed to allow the plaintiff to present evidence (a) to refute the allegations concerning the plaintiff’s alleged misconduct in administering the estate and (b) to challenge the decedent’s will that had been admitted to probate, (2) failed to overrule the Probate Court’s admission of the will to probate, and (3) prevented him from introducing evidence challenging the authenticity of the will. He also claims that the Superior Court abused its discretion in holding him, as a layperson, responsible for the failures of the attorneys he had retained on behalf of the estate to assist with the administration of the estate. We affirm the judgment of the Superior Court.”)