In Re the Estate of Butler

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beier, J.:

This case turns on whether an allocation order and subsequent orders refusing to set it aside, issued in a Wyandotte County probate matter in 2007 and 2008, were final orders ap-pealable within 30 days. We hold that they were and thus ultimately affirm the result in the district court that denied relief to tire estate of the decedent’s father.

The probate allocation order selected a Colgate-Palmolive Company severance package on behalf of Kenneth Lee Butler, who was employed at the company’s closing Kansas City plant at the time he died…