Legal Opinion
Ford v. Ford
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided July 25, 1986No. 91, September Term, 1985PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge,
Specially Assigned.
I
Pearl Rose Ford murdered her mother, Muriel L. Holland, by stabbing her some 40 times. She wrapped the body in plastic garbage bags and deposited it in the backyard of her home. She now seeks to obtain the property left her under her mother’s will. George Benjamin Ford, Jr., her son, asserts that Pearl forfeited her entitlement to the property by the matricide and claims the property as the alternative beneficiary named in the will. The Orphans’ Court for Anne Arundel County, in which the will was admitted to probate, ruled that George “be…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- Langworthy v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1979
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- Spencer v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1888
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