Needels v. Roberts

SPINDEN, Judge.

This appeal arises out of a will contest in which a testator’s children challenge a will giving all of the testator’s estate to his stepson. A jury decided that the testator’s wife had unduly influenced the testator with threats of divorce to disinherit his children and to leave all of his estate to her son, Michael Roberts. Roberts appeals, but we affirm the trial court’s judgment.

I. Facts

Jeffrey T. Needels and Debra Lyn Piatt contest the will of their father, Orval T. Needels, Jr., as being unduly influenced by their father’s second wife. Their father was married to the…