IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KING

SJC-10404.

455 Mass. 796 (2010)

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BARTLEY J. KING.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

January 27, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Maffei (Douglas Tillberg with him) for Robert A. King & others.

Stephen G. Howard for Lois Folan.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.


BOTSFORD, J.

An award of attorney's fees and costs under G. L. c. 215, § 45, by a judge in the Probate and Family Court is the focus of this appeal. In an earlier phase of this case, some of the children and grandchildren of the decedent, Bartley J. King (contestants), challenged the validity of the decedent's will, and separately challenged certain lifetime property transfers he made, on grounds of the decedent's mental...

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