Estate of Kaminski

WIEAND, Judge:

After a court has denied the claim of an administratrix c.t.a. for certain alleged expenses, may the administratrix circumvent the court’s ruling by taking a release from an heir for an amount less than the heir was entitled to receive from the decedent’s estate? The orphans’ court held that the release did not bar the heir’s recovery of the full amount due her and ordered the administratrix to make distribution of remaining assets to the heir. We affirm.

Martha Kaminski died testate on December 20, 1975. By her last will and testament, she devised certain real estate to her son,…