Chong v. Chong

OPINION

This appeal arises from an order of the district court distributing two bank accounts of the decedent, Tai Fong Chong (Tai Fong). Tai Fong’s wife, respondent Bok Nam Chong (Bok Nam), was appointed executrix of the estate. She cashed out two of Tai Fong’s bank accounts claiming them as part of his residuary estate. She then included them as inventory in her petition for an accounting, claiming that the accounts should be given to her as the omitted but intended residuary beneficiary. Tai Fong’s son from a previous marriage, Wei Hin Chong, and Wei Hin’s sons, Daniel and Michael,…