Legal Opinion
Clymer v. Mayo
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 28, 1985PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
This consolidated appeal arises out of the administration of the estate of Clara A. Mayo (decedent). We summarize the findings of the judge of the Probate and Family Court incorporating the parties’ agreed statement of uncontested facts.
At the time of her death in November, 1981, the decedent, then fifty years of age, was employed by Boston University as a professor of psychology. She was married to James P. Mayo, Jr. (Mayo), from 1953 to 1978. The couple had no children. The decedent was an only child and her sole heirs at law are her parents, Joseph A. and Maria Weiss.
In 1963, the decedent…
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