IN RE SMITH ESTATE

Docket No. 228127.

651 N.W.2d 153 (2002)

252 Mich. App. 120

In re ESTATE OF Kilyon Lee SMITH, Deceased. Korean New Hope Assembly of God, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Helen Haight, Kerri A. Smith, Wendy R. Smith, Lance Beattie, and Brian S. Smith, Respondents-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided July 5, 2002, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication September 24, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Kobza, Muskegon, for the petitioner.

McCroskey, Feldman, Cochrane & Brock, P.C. (by Robert O. Chessman), Muskegon, for the respondents.

Before: WILDER, P.J., and BANDSTRA and HOEKSTRA, JJ.


HOEKSTRA, J.

Petitioner appeals as of right from the probate court's grant of summary disposition in favor of respondents in this case where petitioner sought to have a handwritten document admitted to probate as a codicil to the deceased's last will. We reverse and remand.

The deceased, Kilyon Lee Smith, immigrated to the United States from Korea approximately twenty years before her death on May 1, 1999. Smith became a naturalized United States citizen and...

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