Hegmon v. Novak

ADKINS, Judge.

We must decide in this appeal whether the Orphans’ Court for Montgomery County erred when it signed an order transmitting to the circuit court the issue of whether a testator was under undue influence when she signed a will, although the petition to caveat the will only alleged that the testator was mentally incompetent. In the course of this decision, we are called upon to decide whether the 1990 amendment to Maryland Rule 6-434(d), allowing amendments to orders transmitting issues to the circuit court, changes the common law rule that an order transmitting issues is a final…