Legal Opinion
Phipps v. Barbera
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided October 10, 1986PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
Marian E. Phipps died on October 13, 1982, and her will was admitted to probate in the Barnstable Probate and Family Court on January 21, 1983. She left a life estate in her home and its contents, including three paintings by William McGregor Paxton,2 to her half sister, Janice E. Phipps (Phipps). At Phipps’ death, everything except the paintings would go to Kathy Barbera (Barbera), a cousin of the testatrix. The testatrix directed “that the three Paxton paintings ... be donated to the New York Museum of Fine Arts to be added to the Paxton paintings already at the Museum. If the New York…
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