Ex parte Scott

MURDOCK, Justice.

Joan McCullough Scott (“Scott”), .an Alabama resident, petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Jefferson Probate Court to vacate its order requiring all beneficiaries of the estate of Kathryn Marie Lange (“Lange”), deceased (“the estate”), who are residents of Alabama to pay into the probate court distributions they receive from a concurrent administration of the estate in London, England. We grant the petition and issue the writ.

Facts and Procedural History

Lange was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1930. In 1953 she married a Danish citizen and moved to…