In re Estate of Laura

The testator, Edward R. Laura, Sr., died on August 23,1990. The petitioners, two generations of the testator’s heirs who were excluded from his will, appeal a decision of the Rockingham County Probate Court {Maher, J.), approving the order of the Master {Gerald Taube, Esq.), that barred them from inheriting any portion of the testator’s estate. On appeal, the petitioners argue that the probate court erred in: (1) ruling that the testator did not revoke his will when he drafted an unexecuted codicil in 1990; (2) ruling that the testator’s great-grandchildren were not pretermitted heirs under…