Ex Parte Ghafary

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an attempt by a nonlawyer executrix, acting pro se to represent the interest of an estate in a wrongful death action constituted the unauthorized practice of law, and as such, the pro se complaint was a nullity
• a non-lawyer executrix cannot represent the interests of an estate, which is “a separate legal entity with interests other than her own,” in a legal action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).