Succession of Thomas

KNOLL, Judge.

This case addresses the removal of an administratrix of an intestate succession and an attempt to unseat the tutrix of the only heir of decedent’s estate. The contest is between decedent’s mother and the mother of decedent’s illegitimate minor child.

Timmy Lee Thomas died on October 3, 1989, in an offshore accident off the Texas coast. Thomas was never married, but at the time of his death, he was survived by an illegitimate minor son, Timmy Tyrell Strawder, who resided with his mother, Ivy Reneé Strawder, in California.

On October 12, 1989, Georgia P. Thomas, Thomas’ mother,…