IN RE ESTATE OF NORTH FORD

No. 17-PR-463.

200 A.3d 1207 (2019)

IN RE ESTATE OF Rosa NORTH FORD; Raymond North-Bey, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 31, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kate Heinzelman , Washington, for appellant.

Joyce A. Williams , for intervenor.

Before Blackburne-Rigsby, Chief Judge, Easterly, Associate Judge, and Washington, Senior Judge.


In this case, we consider whether an individual who is neither the biological nor legally adopted child of a decedent may equitably claim to be the decedent's "child" and "heir" under the District's intestacy statutes such that he has standing as an "interested person" to probate the decedent's estate. We hold that an...

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