In RE ESTATES OF BROWN v. Dickinson

OPINION

ARMIJO, Judge.

{1} This interlocutory appeal arises out of a dispute among heirs over the distribution of their parents’ estates. The personal representative appeals from an order of the district court declining to accord finality to the personal representative’s proposal for distribution of estate assets. The central question we are asked to determine in this appeal is whether the thirty-day time limit imposed in NMSA 1978, § 45-3-906(0 (1993) can be extended by order of the court. We determine that Section 45-3-906(0 does not strictly apply to the facts of this case and therefore do…