JACOBSON v. ESTATE OF CLAYTON

No. 42082.

119 P.3d 132 (2005)

Tony Allen JACOBSON and Amoreena Victorine, Appellants, v. ESTATE OF Daniel James CLAYTON, Respondent. Tony Allen Jacobson and Amoreena Victorine, Appellants, v. Alan Glover, Administrator of the Estate of Daniel James Clayton, Deceased; and Kemper Insurance Companies, Inc., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

September 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kilpatrick Johnston & Adler and Charles M. Kilpatrick, Carson City; Lemons Grundy & Eisenberg and Robert L. Eisenberg, Reno, for Appellants.

Law Offices of David R. Sidran and Sunny M. Kwon and David R. Sidran, Las Vegas, for Respondents.

Before the Court En Banc.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

In this appeal, we revisit our 1969 decision in Bodine v. Stinson,1 in which we determined that the probate statutes of NRS Chapter 147 provide the statutory scheme for the administration of estates and must be followed in every case regardless of the existence of insurance. We conclude that Bodine is superseded by the Legislature's 1971 amendment of NRS 140.040 to specifically allow suits...

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