In Re Estate of Pulford

Ford, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from the Geauga County Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division. Appellant, Ashley Pulford, putative father, appeals from an order determining that he was not legally entitled to share in the proceeds from any wrongful death distribution emanating from the death of decedent Kevin Pulford, he was not entitled to anything from decedent’s estate, and his name was to be stricken from the form listing decedent’s next of kin, legatees, and devisees. 1

On January 29, 1996, decedent, born October 19, 1995, was traveling with his mother, Adrea Bontrager, and…