MATTER OF ESTATE OF FLOWERS

No. 77386.

848 P.2d 1146 (1993)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Edna L. Rogers FLOWERS, Deceased. Lois L. Flowers HOOPER, Appellee, v. Nola CLINKINGBEARD, Lillian Fowler, Ratha Reynolds and Faye Davis Dattuso, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

March 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary S. Robertson, Steven P. Cole, Oklahoma City, for appellants.

Lawrence W. Parish, Joel D. Butterworth, Oklahoma City, for appellee.


KAUGER, Justice:

Two issues1 are presented: 1) whether the appellee, Lois L. Flowers Hooper (Hooper/adopted daughter/pretermitted heir), qualifies as a pretermitted heir under 84 O.S. 1991 § 132;2 and 2) whether extrinsic evidence is admissible to demonstrate the adoptive mother's intent. We find that: 1) The passage of the Uniform Adoption Act (Adoption Act...

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