Legal Opinion
Lanier v. Rains
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided June 28, 2007PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GARY R. WADE, J,
delivered the opinion of the Court,
in which WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., and JANICE M. HOLDER and CORNELIA A. CLARK, JJ., joined.
The Petitioner, Elizabeth Lanier (“Petitioner”), sought legitimation after the death of Dexter Lyndon Rains (“Decedent”) so as to share in his estate as a pretermitted heir under Tennessee Code Annotated section 32-3-103 (2001). The chancery court sustained a motion to dismiss filed on behalf of the Decedent’s estate and the Decedent’s wife and son as Co-Executors of the estate (“Defendants”), and the Court of Appeals affirmed. We granted review…
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