Legal Opinion

Estate of Haynes

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided August 6, 1991PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ROBERTS, Justice.

Jayne C. Tillotson appeals from a judgment of the York County Probate Court (Brooks, J.) distributing undivided half shares in the York Beach property of her deceased father, M. David Haynes, to Til-lotson and her sister Sally H. Smith. Tillot-son contends that the Probate Code, at 18-A M.R.S.A. § 3-906(a)(4) (1981), mandated that the property be sold and distributed in cash, and that the Probate Court erred in distributing it in kind to permit equitable partition in Smith’s pending Superior Court suit. We affirm the judgment of the Probate Court.

M. David Haynes owned a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Jackson v. BretonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1984

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Plimpton v. GerrardSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1995
  2. Matter of Estate of ZimblemanNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1995
  3. In re the Estate of HopeNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 2007
  4. In Re the Estate of LaueSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 2010
  5. In Re Estate of HuntSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2010

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