Alabama High Court Finds Anti-Lapse Statute Governs Estate Dispute

(October 30, 2019, 7:56 AM EDT) -- MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A decedent’s nieces are entitled to their mother’s share of the decedent’s estate under Alabama’s “anti-lapse statute” even though the decedent had expressly disinherited all her other relatives because the decedent could have foreseen that the nieces would inherit her sister’s share if the sister predeceased her and failed to provide for that contingency, an Alabama Supreme Court panel ruled Oct. 18, reversing and remanding (Regina C. Norwood, et al. v. Elise Barclay, No. 1180281, Ala. Sup., 2019 Ala. LEXIS 111)....

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