probate-law
19 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5188 | Bethzaeli Safier v. Thelma Woolridge | Florida | 2025-07-24 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-law | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court 's refusal to review Petitioner 's case permitted a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth A… |
| 25A50 | Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco | Texas | 2025-07-11 | Presumed Complete | due-process fourteenth-amendment international-law probate-law property-rights treaty-obligations | Question not identified. | |
| 24-1303 | Zakiya Jendayi v. Della Hamlin, et al. | California | 2025-06-24 | Denied | article-iii-standing constitutional-uniformity due-process judicial-integrity probate-law trust-invalidation | Whether a California probate court may invalidate a valid, lawfully executed trust—based on the contested claims of disinherited parties with no stand… | |
| 24-6872 | In Re Lyle Roger Harrison | 2025-03-27 | Dismissed | IFP | court-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct police-reports probate-law speedy-trial | 1. Whether due process allows the Denial of ALL UNREDACTED Police Reports +IIV2 years (+4,200 days) by Judges; Richard L. Broch, Robert J. Steigmann… | |
| 24-6568 | Andrivia Frances Wells v. Mecklenburg County Clerk of Probate Estates, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-distribution probate-law section-1983 | Congress enacted 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Blessing v. Freestone, 520 U.S. 329 (1997) to hold state actors accountable for violating federal constitutional and… |
| 23-7848 | In Re Lyle R. Harrison | 2024-07-02 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process inheritance-rights judicial-misconduct police-reports probate-law speedy-trial | 1. Whether due process allows the Denial of all Unredacted Police Reports by; Judge Richard L. Broch, Judge Jeremy J. Richey, Prosecutor Luke McNeill,… | |
| 23-7090 | Ambrose C. Mendes v. Kirshenbaum & Kirshenbaum, Attorneys at Law, Inc. | Rhode Island | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | accounting civil-procedure due-process ethical-obligations judicial-precedent pro-se-representation probate probate-law settlement-terms standing trial-by-jury trial-court-duty | a. Whether the Trial court held a duty to obey the State supreme court holdings that it follows a prior judge ruling unless consent of parties agree o… |
| 23-6027 | Christy Kay Sweet v. Kathryn Sweet, et al. | Nevada | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | foreign-will inheritance-law judicial-ethics nrs-133 nrs-133a probate probate-law testamentary-intent will-contest will-requirements | 1. Can a foreign will be admitted under NRS133 if it fails to comply with the requirements of a foreign will as set forth in NRS 133A? 2. Can any wil… |
| 23-407 | Robert Perkel, et al. v. Frank Canella, et al. | New Jersey | 2023-10-19 | Denied | civil-procedure due-process equal-protection notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard probate probate-law service-of-process will-contest | 1. Where the State of New Jersey's probate laws and rules of procedure require a party seeking to probate a decedent's Last Will provide notice and op… | |
| 22-125 | Scott Fenstermaker v. Stephen Fenstermaker, et al. | Connecticut | 2022-08-09 | Denied | due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment intestate-distributees probate probate-law property-rights small-estate | Whether Section 45a-273 of the Connecticut General Statutes, C.G.S. §45a-273 ("Section 273"), which permits the no-notice administration of a decedent… | |
| 21-1337 | Patrick Gillis v. David Gillis | Oregon | 2022-04-08 | Denied | 14th-amendment court-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard probate-law standing | In accordance with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, are state courts directly responsible for not… | |
| 20-1447 | Kenneth R. Kunzer v. Lisa A. Hiniker, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Denied | Response Waived | breach-of-trust civil-procedure embezzlement estate-planning fiduciary-duty fraud probate probate-law resulting-trust testamentary-intent trust-administration | 1. Why did Magistrate Judge Menendez refuse to look at the Last Will and Testament and Codicil of Albert P. Herschler? 2. Why did Judge Menendez refu… |
| 20-6719 | Lucille Jackson v. John E. Williams, Jr. | Illinois | 2020-12-29 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | civil-procedure claim court-procedure estate estate-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error legal-claim motion probate probate-law | 1. Whether the court erred in denying Lucille Jackson Williams claim against the estate in the sum of $80,000.00? 2. Whether Lucille Jackson William… |
| 20-496 | Lynn Weinberg v. Deborah Bort | Florida | 2020-10-15 | Denied | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court fourth-district-court full-faith-and-credit probate probate-law | 1. Whether the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida ("4 DC A") violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. C… | |
| 19-1206 | Paul Boland, as Heir of the Estate of Dixie L. Boland, et al. v. Chris Boland, et al. | Montana | 2020-04-10 | Denied | 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process estate-dispute hearing probate probate-law standing | 1) Were Petitioners denied due process of the law when their motion in probate court to turn over assets belonging to their father's estate was denied… | |
| 19-6937 | Scherrieto Little v. Janis Nau, as Administrator | California | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-power attorney-ethics civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-fraud fraud judicial-misconduct legal-ethics probate probate-law rule-8.4 | 1. WHEN A VIOLATION OF CA RULE 8.4 (c) OCCUR, SHOULD THE HEIR 'S OF AN ESTATE HAVE TO PAY FOR THE FRAUD, CORRUPTION, AND LIE'S THAT HAVE BEEN COMMITTE… |
| 19-543 | Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Crown Pointe Care Center, et al. | Ohio | 2019-10-25 | Denied | beneficiary beneficiary-status civil-procedure creditors estate estate-representation executor executor-rights legal-standing pro-se pro-se-representation probate-law standing | May the executor and sole beneficiary of an estate without creditors represent the estate pro se? | |
| 19-479 | Carol M. Kam v. John B. Peyton, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | associate-judge judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-law rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction state-court-rulings state-law void-orders | Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two Void [not voidable but, void] "proposed " State Court Rulings produced by a former Associate Judge, who … |
| 19-377 | Kraig Rudinger Kast v. Erickson Productions, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-20 | Denied | capacity-to-be-sued civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process erisa frcp-17(b) inter-vivos-trust jurisdiction probate probate-law standing tenth-amendment | 1. Whether the district and appellate courts claiming jurisdiction under ERISA over a private inter vivos trust creates conflict between Article VI of… |