Veronica Y. Morrison v. In Re: Estate of Juanita T. Brown-Mason, et al.
The Third DCA affirmed a probate court order granting the Curator's petition for final distribution and discharging her from all duties as to a long-reopened estate. The court rejected Morrison's arguments that alternate naming of the decedent, a clerk's default, alleged inactivity, and fraud claims required reversal, finding no reversible error in the challenged order.
Key facts
- The decedent died in 2008; appellant Morrison served as initial personal representative and obtained a 2010 order of discharge after swearing the estate was fully administered.
- In 2023, the estate was reopened after the decedent's grandson, claiming exclusion from the original probate, petitioned to reopen; the court later appointed attorney Irama Valdes as Curator.
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Holdings
- A probate court's order granting a curator's petition for final distribution and discharge will be affirmed where the record supports full administration and the appellant's challenges are…
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Why it matters
This decision reinforces that pro se collateral attacks on a curator's final distribution and discharge require record-supported grounds; conclusory allegations of fraud, defective notice, and jurisdictional defects… — full analysis with a trial
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