Corbin v. Sherman

BARFIELD, Judge.

Appellants challenge the trial court’s validation of decedent’s will, exclusion of some property from the estate and use of parol evidence to determine decedent’s intended distribution of her estate. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

The decedent died on December 30, 1990. She was survived by her spouse, Bill Corbin, Sr., and three adult children, Betty Guy Sherman, James Cooper, and Daulton Cooper. Sherman petitioned for administration of the decedent’s estate on January 17, 1991. Attached to the petition was a copy of the decedent’s will executed December 5, 1989, which…