Parker v. Melican

Thompson, Justice.

During the last decade of his life, Harvey Strother (testator) had an extramarital relationship with Anne Melican. In that period, he executed codicils to his will on three occasions to provide for Melican and her adult son Matthew (propounders). The first codicil provided $7,900 a month to Anne Melican for the rest of her life and the second codicil, inter alia, gave her a certain Marco Island, Florida condominium if testator owned it at the time of his death. The third codicil, executed just weeks before testator’s death in January 2004, would have paid the mortgage on a…