Reed v. Campbell

How courts have described this case

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• declaring that the state’s interest in orderly disposition of decedents’ estates would justify imposing requirements such as limitations on an illegitimate child who asserts inheritance rights from the father
• law to be applied concerning illegitimate child's ability to inherit is that governing at time claim to decedent's estate is made--when court required to make a decision
• Trimble v. Gordon, 430 U.S. 762, 97 S.Ct. 1459, 52 L.Ed.2d 31 (1978), can be applied retroactively
• law to be applied concerning illegitimate child’s ability to inherit is that governing at time claim to decedent’s estate is made — when court required to make a decision
• “Without good reason to reopen an estate, any late claims are barred, for eat some point there must be finality in probate proceedings.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).