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IN RE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF PALECKI

C.A. No. 1594-N.

920 A.2d 413 (2007)

In the Matter of the LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF Bernice T. PALECKI, Deceased. Walter Palecki, Richard Palecki, Eugene Palecki, Helen Piorko Niemkiewicz, and Edward Piorko, Petitioners, v. Joseph Gornik, Individually, and Joseph Gornik, Executor of the Estate of Bernice T. Palecki, Respondent.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County.

Decided: April 26, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond M. Radulski, Raymond M. Radulski, Attorney at Law, Wilmington, DE, for Petitioners.

David J. Ferry, Jr., Rick S. Miller, Ferry, Joseph & Pearce, P.A., Wilmington, DE, for Respondent.

OPINION

STRINE, Vice Chancellor.

I. Introduction

Bernice Palecki crafted by hand an "Item Four" that works in concert with her holographic Last Will and Testament dated September 24, 1985 (the "Will"). If read together with the Will, the handcrafted addendum — which I will call the "Codicil" — makes sense of the rest of the Will, which would otherwise outline an incomplete dispositive scheme. The Will, in its itemized list...

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