West v. Goldstein

LEIBSON, Justice.

This appeal arises from a will contest case filed in Jefferson Circuit Court contesting certain wills and codicils executed by Evelyn West, who died May 27, 1987, at age 80, leaving virtually all of her estate to the respondent, Irene Goldstein. Irene Goldstein had been employed as Evelyn West’s caretaker during the last three years of her life. Ms. West, although previously married and divorced, had no children. Her four nieces and nephews, three of whom are the movants, Thomas West, Sharon Neikerk, and Lynda Greene, are her only living relatives. At the time of her death,…