Schaeffler v. Deych

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the trial court violated the estate's due process rights by proceeding to enter final judgment without substitution of the proper party
• \The death of a party limits the authority of counsel to proceed in the underlying action.\
• “The death of a party limits the authority of counsel to proceed in the underlying action.”
• “Generally, if the decedent’s estate has been opened, then the personal representative should be substituted in place of the decedent[.]”
• “If an indispens[a]ble party to an action dies, ‘the action abates until the deceased party’s estate, or other appropriate legal representative, has been substituted pursuant to [R]ule 1.260(a)(1).’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).