Legal Opinion
Matter of Estate of Speake
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided July 7, 1987No. 63179PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPALA, Justice.
The dispositive issue on certiorari is whether the one-year “recommencement-of-actions” provisions in 12 O.S. 1981 § 100, also known as a “renewal statute,” extend the time prescribed in 58 O.S. 1981 § 67 to bring a post-probate will contest for a period of one year from the date the initial, timely-filed contest failed otherwise than on the merits. We answer in the negative.
The testator’s will was admitted to probate on June 24, 1980. His daughter [contestant], a minor when the will was probated, initiated a post-probate contest on August 29, 1983. 1 She instituted the…
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