Estate of Coan v. Gaughan

ROBERT J. GLADWIN, Judge.

|,The Estate of Helen Virginia Coan, deceased, through its co-administrators Thomas Carmody and Dr. Norman Savers, appeals the order of the Ouachita County Circuit Court awarding attorney’s fees to appellee Michael Gaughan, a former co-administrator of the estate. The estate challenges the award of fees on several fronts. We affirm the circuit court’s order.

This case is one in a series of appeals spawned by litigation over the estates of Helen Virginia Coan and her brother Joseph Coan, Jr.1 The record reflects that Helen and Joseph |2inherited considerable sums of…