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IN RE ESTATE OF SEADER

No. 02-224.

76 P.3d 1236 (2003)

2003 WY 119

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Neil A. SEADER. Kim Sanderson and Kirk Olive, Appellants (Respondents), v. Ronald Bathrick, duly appointed and acting Personal Representative of the Estate of Neil Adam Seader, Neil J. Seader and Charles Lee Seader, Appellees (Petitioners).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

September 23, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Representing Appellants: Megan L. Hayes and Stephen J. Jouard of Dwyer, Huddleson and Ray, P.C., Fort Collins, Colorado.

Representing Appellees: Lance T. Harmon of Bailey, Stock & Harmon, P.C., Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Matthew H. Romsa of Romsa Law Office, P.C., Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Before HILL, C.J., and GOLDEN, LEHMAN, KITE, and VOIGT, JJ.

VOIGT, Justice.

[¶ 1] The district court refused to apply the doctrines of equitable adoption, adoption by estoppel, and virtual adoption to avoid the operation of the anti-lapse statute. The district court also concluded that the testator's will did not evidence an intention that the share of a predeceased devisee pass to that devisee's children. The devisee's children appealed. We affirm.

ISSUES

1. Whether the doctrines of equitable adoption...

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