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IN RE ESTATE OF HEDKE

No. S-08-980.

775 N.W.2d 13 (2009)

278 Neb. 727

In re Estate of Leona M. HEDKE, deceased. John Nowak, Special Administrator of the Estate of Dolores Nowak, deceased, appellant and cross-appellee, and Nathan A. Schneider, Conservator of Leona M. Hedke, appellee and cross-appellee, v. Charles Hedke, as Trustee of the Leona M. Hedke Revocable Trust, dated December 30, 2004, as attorney in fact for Leona M. Hedke, and individually, appellee and cross-appellant.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

October 23, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Bryant Brooks, of Brooks Law Offices, P.C., McCook, for appellant.

Nathan A. Schneider, of Mousel & Garner, pro se.

Steve W. Hirsch, of Hirsch & Pratt, L.L.P., and Terry L. Rogers, Lincoln, of Terry L. Rogers Law Firm, for appellee Charles Hedke.

HEAVICAN, C.J., WRIGHT, CONNOLLY, GERRARD, STEPHAN, McCORMACK, and MILLER-LERMAN, JJ.

CONNOLLY, J.

I. SUMMARY

Shortly before her death at age 92, while suffering from dementia, Leona M. Hedke created a trust. She deeded all her real estate to the trust and executed a new will that devised all her remaining property to the trust. In the trust, she left the bulk of her estate to her son, Charles Hedke, and nominal assets to her daughter, Dolores Nowak. Dolores contested the will, objecting, in part, to Charles' undue influence.

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