Canody v. Hamblin
Record No. 170747 Canody v. Hamblin (as published by the Virginia Supreme Court) In a proceeding brought by a daughter for probate of a three-page computer-generated document tendered as the will of her father, the... Read More
Feeney, J. v. Feeney and Feeney, S. v. Feeney
Record No: 170031 (As published by the Virginia Supreme Court) In combined suits concerning a will’s residuary clause, which the parties agreed was unambiguous and its meaning could be decided on summary judgment without the... Read More
Mangrum v. Chavis
Record No: 160782 (unpublished order) In a case filed by the beneficiaries of an estate against the decedent’s power of attorney, the Court held that the trial court had erred when it found the attorney-in-fact... Read More
D’Ambrosio v. Wolf
Record No: 170521 (as published by the Virginia Supreme Court) The circuit court erred in concluding that a son’s challenge to the validity of his mother’s will is barred by claim preclusion, issue preclusion, or... Read More
Irving v. Divito
Record No: 170071 (as published by the Virginia Supreme Court) In a proceeding to review a clerk’s decision to deny probate to a handwritten notation on a tab-divider in a binder of estate planning documents,... Read More
Kim v. Kim (ORDER)
Record No: 161505 (As published by the Virginia Supreme Court) In two litigations raising the issue whether a decedent’s will and trust were the product of undue influence by his brother, the attorney who drafted... Read More
Gray v. Binder, Va.
Record No: 161419 (As published by the Virginia Supreme Court) In an estates dispute in which a commissioner of accounts entertained a petition for aid and direction in the interpretation of the decedent’s will and... Read More
Gelber v. Glock, 293 Va. 497
Record No: 160500 (As published by the Virginia Supreme Court) In litigation concerning the real and personal property of a family matriarch which was transferred to one of her five children, the circuit court did... Read More
Reineck v. Lemen, 292 Va. 710
Record No: 151917 (As published by the Virginia Supreme Court) In a suit by the heirs of a deceased wife against the attorney-in-fact and co-trustees for the deceased husband, the husband’s power of attorney instrument... Read More
Ricardo Garcia v. Burke E. Suda, Trustee of the Donald J. Suda Revocable Trust, et al., Fairfax Circuit Court, Case No. CL-2015-11379
Case No: CL-2015-11379 In a suit by the beneficiary of an unfunded subtrust against the trustee of the primary trust for alleged mismanagement, the Court found that the beneficiary of the subtrust did not have standing... Read More