In Re ESTATE OF JOHN MALCOLM WADE

Branch, Judge.

In a 1982 will, John Malcolm Wade named all five of his children as co-executors of his estate. Soon after Wade died in 1987, the probate court issued letters testamentary to all five children, thereby appointing them as co-executors. Almost 25 years later, in August 2012, appellant Mary Virginia Wade petitioned the probate court to obtain an accounting of her siblings’ dealings on behalf of the estate. After a trial, the probate court concluded that the siblings had violated the terms of their father’s will and ordered an accounting of the estate. Three of the four siblings —…