In Re Estate of Clibbon

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• finding personal representative's failure to give notice to beneficiaries of prior will, which notice is not required by statute, did not constitute fraud that would permit reopening estate after discharge of personal representative
• noting one purpose of the probate code is to settle estates “with dispatch”
• “Probate cases differ from lawsuits in that there is usually only one 2 final judgment at the end of a lawsuit, while in probate there can be a number of orders entered at different times on contested issues which finally determine the rights of interested persons.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).