Thames v. Thames

THOMPSON, Presiding Judge.

On March 25, 2014, JaNell Searcy Thames. (“JaNell”) filed a petition in the Montgomery Probate Court (“the probate court”) seeking to probate the will of her late husband, David Whetstone Thames (“the decedent”).1 Regions Bank, the named executor of the decedent’s will, declined to serve as executor. In her petition, JaNell sought to be appointed the personal representative of the decedent’s estate (“the estate”).

In April 2014, Mary Elizabeth Thames (“Mary Elizabeth”), Clinton Moye Thames (“Clinton”), and David W. Thames, Jr. (“David”), the decedent’s children from a…