In re Estate of Livingston

I dissent. The issue in this case, reduced to its most essential form, is whether a dispute as to ownership of property, listed by an administrator or executor of an estate in an inventory as estate property, must be presented as a claim within the dictates of 20 Pa.C.S. §§ 3381-3389. The majority concludes that it must and also finds appellant’s assertion of ownership to be outside of the applicable statute of limitations, thus, time barred. I believe there is a total lack of authority and logic to support this position, thus, my dissent.

Appellant was the wife of Ronald Livingston who died…