McRae v. Booth

This appeal concerns the ultimate disposition of the body of Clarine Booth, who died on June 24, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as "the mother" or "the decedent").

The record reveals that during the final years of the mother's life, her two children, Patrena Booth McRae ("the daughter") and David McCoy Booth ("the son") engaged in protracted litigation regarding the mother's financial affairs; the son and the daughter also opposed each other in proceedings involving the administration of the estate of their father. At the time of her death, the mother was 81 years old and resided in a nursing…