Estate of Guide v. Spooner

Cureton, Judge:

Jacques Frank Sohn appeals from the order of the circuit court affirming a probate court order that found his mother, Yvonne Sohn Revelli Guide (decedent), was domiciled in Beaufort County at her death and admitting to probate her will of July 22,1986. Sohn contends the Beaufort County Probate Court erred when it held it had jurisdiction to probate decedent’s will when a formal testacy proceeding had already commenced in the State of New York. We agree and reverse.

The decedent died on January 6,1990 in South Carolina. On October 31, 1988, fourteen months prior to her death, the…