Socolow v. Goodman

Deen, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises from a probate court’s assessment of $3,810.09 attorney fees against the appellant, Rosah Kline Socolow, for propounding an invalid will without a reasonable belief that the will could be probated. Before the petition was filed, an attorney for Socolow discovered that the purported will had never been properly witnessed. Socolow claimed that the decision to file the petition anyway was made after being advised by counsel that it would be difficult, but not impossible, to probate the will. Within a week after Ronald Goodman (the nephew of the decedent…