· 9/6/1979
Matter of Estate of Seymour
Citations
- 600 P.2d 274
- 93 N.M. 328
How courts have described this case
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- adopting probable cause rule; transferee had probable cause given \unresolved legal questions\. Id. at 332, 600 P.2d at 278
- “The court should infer the existence or absence of good faith and probable cause from the totality of the circumstances.”
- “[N]o-contest provisions are valid and enforceable in New Mexico, but they are not effective to disinherit a beneficiary who has contested a will in good faith and with probable cause to believe that the will was invalid.”
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Judges: Payne
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