Matter of Estate of Decker

The probate court ruled adversely to the caveators-appellants. On this appeal, they challenge several rulings and the summary judgment entered in favor of the personal representative-appellee. They also claim that the probate court’s application of several provisions of the Colorado Probate Code deprived them of property without due process of law. We reject the appellants’ contentions and affirm the judgment of the probate court.

Three months before she died in 1974, the decedent executed a will leaving everything to her brother-in-law, Benjamin Asch, the appellee, who had taken care of her…