Valdez v. Hollenbeck

For more than a decade, a rogue probate clerk looted millions of dollars from the estates of Bexar County residents who had died intestate. Discovery of the crime spree generated a number of civil disputes, including this case, which involves an intestate estate defrauded of more than half a million dollars. More than a decade after the estate’s administration had closed — and more than three years after learning the estate had been significantly ■undervalued — the intestate’s heirs petitioned the probate court by statutory and equitable bills of review to re-open the estate, alleging the…