In re Estate of Trask

The son of an intestate decedent’s predeceased first cousin appeals from a decree of the Coos County Probate Court {Harrigan, J.), which denied his petition for a share in the decedent’s estate by right of representation. We affirm.

On October 2, 1983, Winifred Trask died intestate, without surviving spouse, issue, parents, issue of parents, grandparents or children of grandparents. The decedent’s nearest kin were six first cousins: four grandchildren of her paternal grandparents, and two grandchildren of her grandparents on the maternal side. The probate court divided the estate into halves…