Fielding v. BT Alex Brown

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KESSLER, District Judge.

Plaintiff Ann Fielding 1 brings this action against BT Alex Brown Corp. (“BT Alex Brown”), Delaware Charter & Guarantee Trust Co. (“Delaware Charter”), and Jayne Seebold, individually and on behalf of her children, Aaron and Rebecca Fielding, under D.C.Code §§ 19-113 and 19-303, and the common law of the District of Columbia. Plaintiff alleges that she was the common law wife of decedent Byron Fielding from May 1996 until his death in October 1997. She further alleges that the IRA Trust that decedent attempted to establish just prior to their alleged…