In re the Succession of Bickham

JOHN S. COVINGTON, Judge.

Talmadge Dennis Bickham, Jr., hereafter referred to simply as “decedent,” died on February 11, 1982. His surviving widow, Marie McCauley Bickham (Marie) filed, on February 16, 1982, a petition to probate decedent’s statutory will and to be confirmed as testamentary executrix. The order probating the will and confirming her *912as executrix was signed that day. Decedent’s only legal heirs, Talmadge D. Bick-ham, III, and Renee LaRue Bickham Priest, hereafter referred to simply as the “heirs,” filed “Petition for Declaratory Judgment and Other Relief” on June 23, 1983,…