IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF L.B.

No. 84-554.

510 A.2d 1319 (1986)

In re Guardianship of L.B.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

April 18, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Biederman & Rakow, P.C., Rutland, for appellant E.B.

Janis M. Murcic, Madeleine Mongan, and Maryann Zavez, Law Clerk (On the Brief), Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., Brandon, for appellee L.B. and guardian ad litem Henry Brislin.

Cortland Corsones of Corsones & Hansen, Rutland, for appellees D.B. and V.B.

Before ALLEN, C.J., and HILL, PECK, GIBSON and HAYES, JJ.


HILL, Justice.

The narrow issue on appeal is whether the failure to file a statement of questions in accordance with V.R.C.P. 72(c) is a jurisdictional defect prohibiting the superior court from entertaining appellant's motion to amend her notice of appeal. See 12 V.S.A. § 2555 (authorizing appeal to superior court from decisions of a probate court).

The facts are not in dispute. Appellant E.B. filed a timely notice of appeal from a probate guardianship...

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