In Re Conservatorship of Groves

OPINION

WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which BEN H. CANTRELL, P.J., M.S., and PATRICIA J. COTTRELL, J., joined.

This appeal involves the conservatorship of an elderly widow. Both the widow’s brother-in-law and a niece filed petitions in the Chancery Court for Montgomery County requesting to be appointed her conservator. Following a bench trial, the trial court determined that the widow was “competent” and, therefore, dismissed both conservatorship petitions. The trial court also disapproved the brother-in-law’s accounting of his expenditures on the widow’s behalf…