Swearingen v. Dryden

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Appellant Delores Jean Goodson filed a Petition to Discover Assets in a joint account that her mother, Elsie Verlene Swearingen, holds with Ms. Goodson’s son, Respondent Gary Dryden. The probate court granted the motion to dismiss filed by Mr. Dryden and Respondent John Vohs, who is Ms. Swearingen’s conservator, finding that Ms. Goodson lacked standing to bring a petition for discovery of assets. It also authorized Mr. Vohs, as conservator, to pay attorney’s fees and expenses incurred by Mr. Dryden in defending the joint account, and denied her motion to terminate…