Brion M. Storm v. Robert Z. Storm

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• holding Supreme Court precedent barred federal district court from hearing pre-probate claim for tortious interference with inheritance expectancy
• probate exception bars claim that plaintiff’s father tortiously interfered with plaintiff’s inheritance by persuading trust grantor to amend irrevocable inter vivos trust
• probate exception bars claim that plaintiff's father tortiously interfered with plaintiff's inheritance by persuading trust grantor to amend irrevocable inter vivos trust
• “When probate-like matters are at issue in a dispute, however, we reiterate that it is significant to our analysis that state courts vested with probate jurisdiction are much more familiar than are federal courts with the factual and legal issues involved.”
• “Given the growth in recent years of various ‘will substitutes,’ we are loath to throw open the doors of the federal courts to disputes over testamentary intent simply because a decedent chose to use a will substitute rather than a traditional will to dispose of his or her estate.”

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