IN RE ESTATE OF GARCIA

Court of Appeals No. 21CA0263.

516 P.3d 962 (2022)

2022 COA 58

IN RE the ESTATE OF Deborah Gene GARCIA, deceased. Julius Garcia, Appellant, v. Krysta Bialozor, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Deborah Gene Garcia, and Diana Strong, Appellees.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. III.

Announced May 26, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erich Schwiesow, P.C., Erich Schwiesow , Alamosa, Colorado, for Appellant.

Staggs Morris, P.C., Ernest Staggs , Denver, Colorado, for Appellee Krysta Bialozor.

Hutchinson Black & Cook, LLC, John C. Clune , Meghan C. Hungate , Boulder, Colorado, for Appellee Diana Strong.


¶ 1 Nearly a century ago, Colorado enacted a "slayer statute" to bar felonious killers from gaining a financial benefit from the killing. Yet, until today, no published Colorado case has considered whether a person who has no legal relationship with a decedent's heirs has standing to assert a slayer statute claim...

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