Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of King
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 27, 2010PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBotsford, J.
An. award of attorney’s fees and costs under G. L. c. 215, § 45, by a judge in the Probate and Family Court is the focus of this appeal. In an earlier phase of this case, some of the children and grandchildren of the decedent, Bartley J. King (contestants), challenged the validity of the decedent’s will, and separately challenged certain lifetime property transfers he made, on grounds of the decedent’s mental incapacity and of undue influence. After nine days of trial before a judge (trial judge) in the Probate and Family Court (Probate Court), Lois Folan, who is a daughter of the decedent…
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