Legal Opinion
In Re Estate of Rhea
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided June 5, 2008No. 2-07-283-CVPublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANNE GARDNER, Justice.
Appellants Charlotte Bonner Barrett and Trenton Bonner, independent co-executors of the estate of Wanda Meacham Rhea, deceased, appeal from a trial court order awarding Appellee Charles Rhea a family allowance of $20,000; $5,000 in lieu of exempt property; and the use of Wanda’s wedding ring during his lifetime. We modify the trial court’s order and affirm the order as modified.
Background
Charles, who is eighty-seven years old, and Wanda married late in life and had been married for just under nine years when Wanda died in June 2005 at the age of seventy-nine.…
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