IN RE MOONEY ESTATE

Docket No. 88927.

154 Mich. App. 411 (1986)

397 N.W.2d 329

In re MOONEY ESTATE

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided September 8, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Best, Arnold, Gleeson, Best & Schmucker, P.C. (by Benjamin J. Glasgow), for petitioner.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Richard R. Roesch and Curtis G. Beck, Assistant Attorneys General, for respondent.

Before: SHEPHERD, P.J., and J.H. GILLIS and MacKENZIE, JJ.


SHEPHERD, P.J.

Respondent Department of Treasury appeals from a Jackson County Probate Court order requiring respondent to recompute the inheritance tax assessment on the estate of the decedent, Hugh Robert Mooney, Sr., to give Mooney's natural sons, the sole beneficiaries of decedent's estate, preferential tax treatment under MCL 205.202; MSA 7.562. We affirm, holding that a child who has been adopted out by its natural parent remains a lineal descendant entitled...

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