ESTATE OF HAWKINS v. WISEMAN

No. COA07-1146.

662 S.E.2d 693 (2008)

ESTATE OF Jack Albert HAWKINS, Deceased; Debra K. Jones, Executrix of the Estate of Jack Albert Hawkins, Plaintiff, v. Curley Mae WISEMAN, f/k/a Curley Mae Wiseman Hawkins, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 1, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crumpler Freedman Parker & Witt, by Dudley A. Witt and Tyler B. Kline, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff.

Wood, Rabil & Peake, LLP, by Thomas R. Peake II, Winston-Salem, for defendant.


ELMORE, Judge.

Jack Albert Hawkins (the deceased) was an elderly man, suffering from the effects of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. On 23 June 2004, when the deceased was eighty-three years old, he entered into a purported marriage with his fifty-five-year-old live-in caretaker, Curley Mae Wiseman (defendant). A court declared the deceased incompetent on 1 December 20041 and the Clerk appointed Bryan C. Thompson as his guardian on 7...

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