In RE ESTATE OF Louise Ray BURKHALTER.

Branch, Judge.

*417 William Thomas Ray Burkhalter and John Allan Burkhalter, executors of the estate of Louise Ray Burkhalter, appeal from the Bibb County Probate Court's order granting, in part, a petition for a declaratory judgment filed by George Laris Burkhalter and Nancy Gayle Ward. In the rulings at issue in this appeal, the probate court *418 granted the petitioners' requests for a declaratory judgment that they may, without invoking the in terrorem clause 1 included in the testator's will, file subsequent petitions concerning the will and its administration. For the reasons that follow, we…