ESTATE OF SULLIVAN

No. CAAP-17-0000826.

463 P.3d 1248 (2020)

The ESTATE OF Joanna Lau SULLIVAN, aka Joanna Ngit Cho Lau Sullivan, Deceased.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawai`i.

March 20, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On the briefs:

Paul Alston , Honolulu, Kristin L. Holland , (Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing), and Thomas E. Bush , (Thomas E. Bush Law Office, LLLC), for Petitioner-Appellant COLLEEN H.A. SULLIVAN.

Carroll S. Taylor , Honolulu, (Taylor, Leong & Chee), and Emily Y. Kawashima Waters , for Respondent-Appellee ELLIOT H. LODEN, Personal Representative.

Rhonda L. Griswold , Summer G. Shelverton , Pohai A.N. Campbell , (Cades Schutte LLP), Honolulu, for Respondents-Appellees MAUREEN JENAI SULLIVAN WALL and KATHLEEN WENG AI SULLIVAN WO.

FUJISE, PRESIDING JUDGE, LEONARD, J.; AND CIRCUIT JUDGE SOUZA, IN PLACE OF GINOZA, C.J., AND CHAN, HIRAOKA AND WADSWORTH, JJ., ALL RECUSED.


This case arises out of a petition for the probate of a will and the appointment of a personal representative to administer the decedent's estate. One of the decedent's children petitioned for the appointment of a special administrator to properly administer a potential claim against the decedent's estate planning...

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