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IN RE ESTATE OF SATO

No. 04-PR-267.

878 A.2d 1247 (2005)

In Re Estate of Anne T. SATO; William E. Smith, Appellant, v. Tanja H. Castro, Successor Personal Representative of the Estate of Anne T. Sato, & Robert J. Pleshaw, Special Master, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 21, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger C. Ohlrich, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Tanja H. Castro, Successor Personal Representative, on behalf of the Estate, with whom Robert J. Pleshaw, Special Master, was on the brief, on behalf of appellee.

Before RUIZ and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges, and KING, Senior Judge.

RUIZ, Associate Judge.

The appellant, former personal representative of his wife's estate, appeals from an order of the trial court requiring him to repay to the estate funds he paid to himself as a creditor without having filed a formal notice of his claim with the Register of Wills. We agree with the trial court's interpretation that the probate statute's notice requirement applies to claims of the personal representative. We remand the case, however, for the trial...

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