McRae v. Booth

938 So.2d 432 (2006)

Patrena Booth MCRAE

v.

David McCoy BOOTH.

2040969.

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

March 3, 2006.

J.E. Sawyer, Jr., Enterprise, for appellant.

G. Scott Frazier, Tuscaloosa, for appellee.

PITTMAN, Judge.

This appeal concerns the ultimate disposition of the body of Clarine Booth, who died on June 24, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as "the mother" or "the decedent").

The record reveals that during the final years of the mother's life, her two children, Patrena Booth McRae ("the daughter") and David McCoy Booth ("the son") engaged in protracted litigation regarding the mother's…