Kelley v. Jepson

OPINION

The plaintiff, Katherine M. Kelley (Kelley), has appealed the Superior Court’s dismissal of an appeal of a Providence Probate Court decision. The Superior Court found that Kelley and Thomas W. Pearlman, Esq. (Pearlman) 1 failed to file certified copies of the record or a transcript of the probate proceedings within thirty days of the probate decree, thereby failing to timely perfect their appeal. Kelley raised two issues on appeal to ■ this Court: whether the decision signed by the Providence probate judge on April 4, 2000, was a valid decree for purposes of triggering the statutory…