Shafer v. Gleis

Opinion

OSBORNE, J.*

We consider the application of an amendment to a statute authorizing fees for an attorney for the executor or administrator of an estate. The amendment authorizes reimbursement from the estate for fees for opposing a contest of the will, filed before the will is admitted to probate. We hold the amendment is applicable to cases pending on appeal after the effective date of the amendment, and accordingly reverse the denial of fees.

Stella Schuster died on March 31, 1982. She left two surviving relatives, a niece, Sandra Weissberger, and a nephew, Robert Grubel, and an estate…