Collins v. Baggette

FRED W. JONES, JR., Judge.

Helen Smith Fuller died intestate on May 11, 1976, survived by one heir, Jo Anne Fuller, her daughter. Following the death of her mother, Jo Anne Fuller retained a tax attorney to complete tax returns for the estate and proceeded to administer various properties which had belonged to her mother. However, she never opened her mother’s succession or formally accepted it.

Jo Anne Fuller died intestate on January 10, 1984, leaving as her only heirs two paternal aunts and one maternal aunt.

The paternal aunts nominated Wade Bag-gette, husband of their niece, to be the…