In Re Estate of Preston

OPINION

BILL MEIER, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Doris Rose Preston died intestate in Denton County on August 27, 2005. After Appellant Scherry J. Levi filed an application for letters of administration in December 2005 seeking to be appointed adminis-tratrix of Doris’s estate, three and a half years of what the trial court described as “extensive,” “miserable,” and “tortured” litigation followed. These appeals stem from a large part of that litigation, in which the trial court ultimately entered death penalty sanctions against both Scherry and Appellant Michael B. Preston.

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