Joyce Duffy v. Estate of Bartolomie Scire

OPINION

Justice ROBINSON,

for the Court.

These consolidated appeals cause us to once again consider the sometimes stringent requirements for perfecting Probate Court appeals. The appeals involve a petition filed by Joyce Duffy and Donna O’Reilly (plaintiffs) for the appointment of a guardian over their father, Bartolomie Scire (defendant or estate).1 After a judge of the Warwick Probate Court denied the petition, the plaintiffs appealed to the Superior Court for Kent County, where their complaint seeking review from the probate decision was dismissed.

This case came before the Supreme Court for…