In Re the Estate of Pritchard

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• holding that, absent a statutorily created obligation, a personal representative or his or her attorney has “no duty ... to inform or give notice to [the surviving spouse] of [his or] her homestead and/or spousal rights”
• concluding in dicta that a certified public accountant appointed administrator and his lawyer owed no duty prior to July 2006 to the surviving spouse who was not the personal representative to inform her of any possible homestead rights or other statutory rights
• \Subject matter jurisdiction is the power to decide and not the exercise of that power.\
• “[W]e reject the notion that a compensatory award for emotional distress upheld in one case is in any way relevant to the propriety or size of an emotional distress award in another case.”

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