In re Estate of Westin

¶ 1 The issues addressed in this appeal are removal of an estate’s executor and surcharge against him and his law firm, after loss of the estate’s assets due to criminal activity at the firm.

*142¶ 2 Appellants, all of whom had invested money with the decedent Jonathan Mills Westin, are eighteen creditors of the decedent’s estate. By terms of Westin’s will, Paul D. Zavarella, an attorney in the law firm of Bruce E. Dice & Associates, P.C., was appointed executor of the estate. He probated the will; obtained letters of administration; and on January 31, 2002 filed his first and final account of the…