IN RE ESTATE OF LIPIN


939 A.2d 107 (2008)

2008 ME 16

Estate of Theodore LIPIN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: January 29, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan Carol Lipin, New York City, pro se.

David. S. Sherman, Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon, David P. Silk, Curtis Thaxter Stevens Broder & Micoleau, LLC, David E. Hunt, Law Office of David E. Hunt, Portland, for appellees.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, LEVY, and MEAD, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

[¶ 1] Joan Carol Lipin challenges the denial of her request for recusal entered in the Cumberland County Probate Court (Mazziotti, J.) in connection with the probate of the estate of her father, Theodore Lipin. We affirm the judgment, and because the appeal is frivolous, we impose sanctions on Joan for its prosecution.

I. BACKGROUND

[¶ 2] Theodore Lipin died on October 6, 2005, while residing in Stockholm, Sweden. He...

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