In re Estate of Doughtie

BY JUDGE CLIFFORD R. WECKSTEIN

The executor of the estate of Ruth Brammer Doughtie seeks judicial aid and direction about (1) how to interpret Ms. Doughtie’s will and administer her estate when the name of one of three residuary beneficiaries has been obliterated with correction fluid; and (2) what legal effect, if any, to give to Ms. Doughtie’s firmly-expressed oral statements about how she wanted her estate to be distributed after her death.

All necessary persons are before the court. They have had notice and the opportunity to be heard. I heard evidence ore terms on January 5, 2006. My…