MATTER OF ESTATE OF VAN WINKLE

No. 85CA0216.

757 P.2d 1134 (1988)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Claude Eugene VAN WINKLE, Deceased. Tilda VAN WINKLE, Appellee, v. Irene GIVENS, Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

June 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gunther & Westlund, Terry Ehrlich, Wheat Ridge, for appellee.

Gaunt, Dirrim, Coover & Phelps, Bradley J. Coover, Brighton, for appellant.


VAN CISE, Judge.

Irene Givens appeals an order entered by the district court sitting in probate (probate court), in which it determined that two bank accounts held in joint tenancy in the names of Givens and her brother, Claude Eugene Van Winkle, were assets of his estate and did not belong to Givens. We vacate the order and remand for findings of fact.

Tilda and Claude Van Winkle were married in July 1979. They separated in 1981 and, by agreement, divided...

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