O'Connell v. Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C.

YEAGLEY, Associate Judge, Retired:

This appeal is from a judgment of the Probate Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia holding that appellant, an adopted adult, is not entitled to take as “issue” of her adoptive mother under the terms of a testamentary trust. Appellant, Deidre Shane Robinson O’Con-nell, now asserts on appeal that the trial court erred in (1) granting appellees’ motion for judgment on the pleadings; (2) denying her motion for judgment on the pleadings; and (3) construing the testamentary trust as excluding adoptees from sharing as “issue” in the income and…