In re Estate of Floyd

By Judge Robert J. Smith

This matter came before the Court on the Petition for Aid and Direction filed by Kenneth Labowitz as the Administrator of the Estate of Gladys Floyd, deceased. The petition seeks the approval of a plan of distribution for the proceeds of the Estate of Gladys Floyd, who died intestate on September 18, 2007.

This case presents the question of how proceeds from an estate are to be distributed pursuant to Virginia’s intestacy statute amongst two maternal first cousins, three maternal first cousins once removed, a paternal first cousin, eight paternal first cousins once…