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Estates and trusts — Interlocutory appeal — Dismissal of appeal The instant case concerns an ongoing dispute over the will and estate of James R. Charles. Sherry Ray Eveland, appellant, is Charles’s daughter and one of the named legatees under ...

Estates and trusts — Anti-Lapse Statute — Legacies of deceased legatees In this case, we are asked to determine whether Maryland’s Anti-Lapse Statute should apply to a certain will. The will at issue devised and bequeathed the rest and residue ...

Insurance law — Household exclusion — Reasonable interpretation A motorist was involved in an accident that resulted in the death of his passenger, a resident of his household. The motorist’ s insurance policy contained a household exclusion, which excluded coverage ...

Estates and Trusts — Motion to enforce settlement agreement — Need for hearing Charles Brown and his wife Robin Beck-Brown (collectively “the Browns”), appeal an order of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County granting appellee Ann H. McLain’s Motion ...

Estates and trusts — Settlement agreement — Fair and reasonable On March 9, 2011, Judge W. Byron Sorrell (“Decedent”) passed away leaving behind a Last Will and Testament dated December 28, 2010 (the “Will”). Among other bequests, Craig Cohill (“Appellant”) ...

Estates — Consent order — Legal basis to overturn This case comes to us on an unusual posture: the appellant, Robert Baker, seemingly agreed through his counsel to a consent order entered into at a hearing before the Orphan’s Court ...

Estates and trusts — Constructive trust — Presumptively valid deeds The Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, Sadie M. Castruccio, the appellant, filed suit against the estate of her late husband, Peter Adalbert Castruccio (“the Estate”), the appellee, contesting the ...

Torts — Maryland Tort Claims Act — Notice requirement This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County dismissing the State of Maryland as a party to Terron Williams’s tort action against two former ...

Estates and trusts — Challenge to disallowance of claim — Statute of limitations In this intra-sibling dispute, we are asked by Joyce H. Sams, appellant, to find that the Circuit Court for Charles County erred in dismissing her complaint against ...

Estates and trusts — Settlement — Acquiescence and enforcement This case began as a dispute between siblings regarding their deceased mother’s estate. That case was settled. Now, two of the siblings ask this Court to vacate the settlement agreement. Read ...