Robert Golden, Attorney-In-Fact for Leah Golden Donald Earwood, of the Estate of Helen Earwood v. David S. Golden Darlene Koposko

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that federal courts have a “continuing obligation to investigate their jurisdiction over the matters before them”
• finding that plaintiffs claims of undue influence, forgery, and breach of fiduciary duty “would [have] interfere[d] with the already-completed probate proceedings and, therefore, [were] subject to the probate exception”
• “causes of action involving trusts are treated under the probate exception in the same way as actions involving wills”
• federal courts are under “a continuing obligation to investigate their jurisdiction over the matters before them.”
• “In diversity actions involving estates, the courts look to the citizenship of the decedent to determine jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).