Jureski v. Scaduto

Larry Jureski, as personal representative, filed a petition to construe a will. A residuary beneficiary opposed the petition, contending that the will contained two irreconcilable clauses. The trial court, in construing the self-drafted will of the testator, agreed with the residuary beneficiary and concluded that the two dispository paragraphs in the will conflicted. As the conflict could not be otherwise resolved, the trial court, applying settled law, determined that the latter provision must prevail over the former, as the last statement of the testator’s intent. We affirm.

The applicable…