Texas Panel Affirms Judgment In Will Contest Using Statute Of Limitations Defense

Mealey's (July 26, 2022, 12:28 PM EDT) -- HOUSTON — A Texas court of appeals on July 21 affirmed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment for a decedent’s widow in the decedent’s daughter’s suit to set aside a will admitted to probate, finding that the widow “conclusively established” that the daughter’s claim accrued upon the will being admitted to probate and that the daughter “should have known” of the facts related to her suit before the expiration of the two-year statute of limitations....