Tennessee Panel:  Will’s ‘Include’ Phrase Doesn’t Exclude Great-Grandchildren

(March 23, 2021, 1:33 PM EDT) -- NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee appeals panel on March 18 reversed and remanded a probate court’s denial of a petition to include great-grandchildren as beneficiaries of an estate, ruling that the will’s plain language that the issue “includes” those with a parent-child relationship to the testator’s children does not exclude descendants who do not have that relationship....

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