IN RE ESTATE OF NEUMAN

No. A11-1695.

819 N.W.2d 211 (2012)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Darlene J. NEUMAN, Deceased and In the Matter of the Estate of Lois Jeannette Wiggs, Deceased.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

August 6, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Chance Mark, Jr. , Alyson M. Palmer , David M. Ness , Fafinski Mark & Johnson, P.A., Eden Prairie, MN, for appellant Elizabeth Sietsema.

Earl H. Cohen , Steven V. Rose , Emeric J. Dwyer , Mansfield, Tanick & Cohen, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for respondents Estate of Darlene J. Neuman, Estate of Lois Jeannette Wiggs, and Friends of Animal Adoptions, Inc., d/b/a Animal Ark No-Kill Shelter.

Norman M. Abramson , Sheryl G. Morrison , Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for respondent University of Minnesota Foundation.

Considered and decided by ROSS, Presiding Judge; WRIGHT, Judge; and TOUSSAINT, Judge.


OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

This case arises from the pilfering of funds from two estates. The owner of a small promotional business and his office manager became the attorneys-in-fact for an elderly woman, and, after her death, they became the personal representatives of her estate. The business owner overcharged the estate $151,519 for personal services and personal-representative fees. He had also been the personal representative of the estate of the woman's...

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