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· 3/4/1987

In Re the Estate of Dodge

Citations

  • 522 A.2d 77
  • 361 Pa. Super. 188
  • 1987 Pa. Super. LEXIS 7254

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that judicial review is confined to a determination of whether Register abused discretion in issuance of letters of administration where no additional evidence was received
  • orphans’ court “refused a request for a hearing de novo and limited its review to the record established before the register of Wills”
  • “A determination regarding appellant’s right to receive letters of administration will not be res judicata with respect to a claim that she is the decedent’s widow for purposes of taking under the intestate law”

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Judges: Wieand, Montemuro, Johnson

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