Estate of Banks v. Banks

[¶ 1] The Estate of Jessica Banks appeals from an order entered in the District Court (Bangor, Stitham, J.) granting John Banks’s motion to dismiss Jessica Banks’s divorce complaint and an order denying a motion filed by the co-personal representatives of Jessica’s Estate to substitute themselves for Jessica in the divorce following Jessica’s death. The Estate argues that the court erred in concluding that the divorce judgment was not final because the judgment, although signed, was not docketed by the time Jessica died. The Estate contends that the judgment was final upon the court’s…