In Re Estate of Brown

Appellant, Royse A. Brown, appeals an order of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division, denying his application for an order authorizing payment of his attorney fees.

Mary Ruth Brown, appellant’s mother, died on November 20, 1990. Her will was admitted to probate on December 11, 1990. With certain exceptions for tangible personal property, the will divided the estate in half, giving half in trust to appellant and the other half outright to appellant’s sister, Stephanie Murphy.

Prior to her death, Mary Ruth Brown became ill and was placed in a nursing home. Murphy began…