MIERAS v. DeBONA

Docket No. 100259, Calendar No. 4.

550 N.W.2d 202 (1996)

Ruth Ann MIERAS and Elmer E. Ledbetter, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ronald V. DeBONA, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vicko, Lane, Payne & Broder, P.C. by Thomas W. Payne and Carol L. Fosse, Bingham Farms, for plaintiffs.

Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. by Christine D. Oldani and Lawrence R. Donaldson, Detroit, for defendant.

Mary Rouleau, Steven S. Zalenznick, Dorothy Siemon, and Deborah Zuckerman, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae American Association of Retired Persons.


OPINION

LEVIN, Justice.

Shortly before her death,1 Nita Ledbetter Jackson signed a new will disinheriting her daughter, Juanita Neville, and dividing her estate between her other children, Ruth Ann Mieras and Elmer E. Ledbetter, the plaintiffs in this action.

The new will did not exercise a general power of appointment conferred on Jackson under the terms of a marital trust...

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