In re Estate of Banks

Ellington, Presiding Judge.

The Probate Court of Meriwether County entered an order finding Jimmy Darryl Banks, Jr. (“Banks”), in contempt of court for violating its orders that he preserve and return certain specified property of his father’s estate. Pursuant to this Court’s order granting Banks’s application for discretionary appeal, see OCGA § 5-6-35 (a) (l),he appeals, and, for the reasons explained below, we vacate the contempt order and remand.

The record shows the following proceedings. Jimmy Darryl Banks, Sr., died intestate in November 2014. In August 2015, his widow, Eunice Banks, and…