Legal Opinion
In Re Finlay Estate
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided June 7, 1988No. 79783, (Calendar No. 2)PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
430 Mich. 590 (1988)
424 N.W.2d 272
In re FINLAY ESTATE
THOMAS
v.
FINLAY
Docket No. 79783, (Calendar No. 2).
Supreme Court of Michigan.
Argued December 8, 1987.
Decided June 7, 1988.
Touma, Watson, Nicholson, Whaling, Fletcher & DeGrow, P.C. (by Douglas S. Touma), for the petitioners.
Campbell, Keenan & Harry (by C. Daniel Harry) for the respondents.
ARCHER, J.
We granted leave to consider two issues: (1) whether the former Probate Code must be applied because the parties so stipulated in the probate court; and (2) whether the law applicable to this case is the former Probate Code or the Revised Probate…
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