Stoican v. Wagner

¶35 I cannot subscribe to the Court’s analysis under Issue One, although I agree that Appellants have standing to contest the decedent’s will. Further, the Court’s resolution of Issue Two is inconsistent with its resolution of Issue One. I fail to understand how an “interested person” with standing to contest a will does not similarly have standing to petition for removal of a personal *290representative so designated because of provisions of that contested will. The Court’s analysis is flawed: first, in its failure to correctly apply statutory distinctions between informal and formal probate;…