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CLEMENT v. DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES

Nos. 91-CV-629, 91-CV-707.

629 A.2d 1215 (1993)

Merita CLEMENT and Shirley Clement, Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES and Betty Clement, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 12, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark G. Levine, with whom Diane M. Brenneman, was on a supplemental brief, and John London Clark, Jr., filed a brief for Merita Clement.

Dushko S. Zdravkovich, for Shirley Clement.

Iris McCollum Green, for Betty Clement.

John Payton, Corp. Counsel and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, filed a statement in lieu of brief on behalf of the District of Columbia.

Before FERREN, STEADMAN and KING, Associate Judges.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

This appeal addresses the power of a trial court to reopen and expand upon a final order rendered by the trial court in a civil action. It involves a man who died, leaving behind three women all claiming to be his legal surviving spouse. In an action immediately following his death in which the disposition of his body was at issue, the trial court ruled that "for the limited purposes of [that] hearing," it appeared that appellee Betty Clement...

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