Gentzel v. Estate of Buchanan

SHIVERS, Judge.

Appellant Gail Gentzel, daughter of the decedent Alma B. Buchanan, appeals the probate order determining that a' savings and loan association savings account, a commercial bank certificate of deposit, a commercial bank savings account, and a commercial bank checking account, all in the joint names of appellant Gentzel and decedent, are probatable assets of the decedent which pass under the decedent’s will rather than to the appellant Gentzel as surviving account holder. The trial court found that these joint accounts were really the property of the decedent, that the…