Segal v. Himelfarb

RAYMOND G. THIEME, Jr., Judge,

Retired, Specially Assigned.

Bruce Z. Segal, in his capacity as the personal representative of the estate of his aunt, Mrs. Helen Segal, appeals the Order of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, sitting as the Orphans’ Court, pertaining to the distribution of assets from Mrs. Segal’s estate. Appellant presents the following question in this appeal, which we have re-phrased for clarity:

Did the trial court err in its interpretation of Maryland’s Anti-lapse Statute by ruling that Helen Segal’s bequest to Louis Segal passed back to her estate for distribution to…