Matter of Estate of Brooks

Bruce C. Brooks appeals from the Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order of the Twenty-First Judicial District Court, Ravalli County, denying admission of a document dated March 21, 1995, to probate, declaring that Katheryn May Brooks died intestate, and ordering that her estate be distributed accordingly. We affirm.

The restated dispositive issue on appeal is whether the District Court erred in denying admission of the March 21, 1995, document to probate.

Katheryn May Brooks (Kay) died on March 24, 1995, in Ravalli County, Montana, at the age of seventy-nine. She was survived by two…