In Re Estate of Preston

I join the majority opinion and judgments in all respects except for the failure to affirm the award of exemplary damages.

The trial court’s amended final default judgment awarded Deartis Preston $414,000 and the final judgment awarded Doris’s estate $180,716.94 in exemplary damages based on its finding of sufficient clear and convincing evidence. In the trial court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law, it found that appellants had breached their fiduciary duties to appellees; that such breaches were committed with an intent to gain benefits and consisted of self-dealing; that appellants…