Matter of Estate of Nation

OPALA, Chief Justice,

with whom

HODGES, Vice Chief Justice, joins, dissenting.

The court dismisses for untimeliness an appeal from a mid-probate order that denies appellants’ claim — as unintentionally omitted children — to a statutory share of decedent’s estate.1 Today’s opinion reasons that the order in contest is interlocutory2 and hence must be appealed,3 if at *444all, within thirty days of its rendition4 rather than thirty days after its filing5 I must recede from the court’s pronouncement. I would review the nisi prius order at once because it is final as the disposition of a “collateral"…