Estate of Fields v. Fields

BASKIN, Judge.

Ronnie Fields, as personal representative of the Estate of Sidney I. Fields, appeals a final judgment of the probate court requiring that $125,000 in municipal bearer bonds be added to the inventory of the estate. We reverse.

In his will Sidney Fields bequeathed $100,000 to his daughter, Sandra Fields. Sandra Fields filed a motion to compel the personal representative to add the bearer bonds to the inventory of the estate to satisfy her bequest. Sandra Fields argued that the bearer bonds, purchased through a brokerage account opened in her father’s name prior to the marriage,…