Gladson v. Gladson

Tom Glaze, Justice.

llene Gladson, now deceased, had two accounts with Dean Witter Reynolds that she held as joint tenant with right of survivorship with her husband and daughter, Vickie. Sometime after the accounts were opened, Mrs. Gladson’s husband died, but the accounts otherwise remained unchanged. However, Mrs. Gladson did subsequently execute a will nominating Vickie as executrix of her estate and bequeathing, among other things, $5,000 from each of the two accounts to her son, John Gladson, Jr.

After Mrs. Gladson died, Vickie petitioned to admit her mother’s will to probate. Because she…