Stranberg v. Lasz

Kurtz, J. —

Walter and Alys Lasz were married in July 1944; the couple had no children as the result of this marriage. After Walter Lasz died in 2000, his niece, Lois Stranberg, and his nephew, Leonard W. Lasz, (the Stranbergs), commenced this action when Alys Lasz and her sons (collectively referred to as the Odells) refused to probate Walter’s will and transferred all of the family farm property into the Alys O. Lasz Living Trust. The Odells took the position that there was no property to probate because all of the property passed to Alys Lasz under a 1962 community property agreement. The…