In Re Estate of Scharenbroch

In this action, the petitioner sought to have her daughter Stephanie declared decedent Jeffrey S. Scharenbroch’s heir-at-law under MCL 700.111(4)(c); MSA 27.5111(4)(c). Decedent was the child’s putative father, though he and the petitioner were not married. Decedent died intestate, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident, thirty-two days after Stephanie’s birth. The probate court granted summary disposition to the respondents after finding reasonable minds could not disagree that the thirty-two-day-old child was incapable of having borne a "mutually acknowledged”…