Legal Opinion

Estate of Wiley

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided March 19, 2013No. ED 98738Published

1Opinion of the Court

LAWRENCE E. MOONEY, Presiding Judge.

Jessica Malone, formerly Jessica Cheeseman, the step-granddaughter of the *656decedent, appeals the order of the probate division of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County denying her affidavit for collection of a small estate. Because, under all the facts of the case, we construe her affidavit as a request to admit the decedent’s will to probate, we reverse and remand the order of the circuit court.

Following her step-grandfather’s death on April 29, 2011, the appellant filed a copy of her step-grandfather’s will and her affidavit for collection of small estate…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. In Re Estate of ClarkMissouri Court of Appeals · 2002
  2. Hawkins v. LemastersMissouri Court of Appeals · 2006

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