Re: Estate of Maddi, C.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
OTT, J.:
Mary Sue Goreschak and Charlette Maddi (“Appellants”) appeal the decree entered June 14, 2016, in the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County, that denied Appellants’ petition for appeal from the Register of Wills’ decision to admit to probate a duplicate original of the Last Will and Testament of Charles F. Maddi (Decedent), their father. Appellants claim the orphans’ court erred (1) in failing to hold Decedent’s sister, Lillian Saracino (“Sister”), to the correct legal standard for rebutting the presumption of revocation of a lost will, and (2) in allowing inadmissible…
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