In Re the Estate of Heibult

GILBERTSON, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1.] Anna K. Heibult executed a will in 1990 devising a larger portion of her property to Ronald Heibult, the youngest of her four children. In 1991, on a visit to California to see the three older siblings, Anna executed a second will and trust dividing the property equally. Neither the original nor a signed copy of the second will was ever found. When Anna died in February 2000, the three older siblings petitioned for adjudication of intestacy. The circuit court, however, granted Ronald’s petition to probate the 1990 South Dakota will. We affirm.

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