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Case Citations [i] (Fall 2025)

handle is hein.ali/retpwodt0050 and id is 1 raw text is: THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE Fall 2025 Citations PROPERTY 3D (WILLS AND OTHER DONATIVE TRANSFERS) DIVISION I. PROBATE TRANSFERS (WILLS AND INTESTACY) CHAPTER 3. EXECUTION OF WILLS PART A. EXECUTION FORMALITIES § 3.1 Attested Wills Mont.2024. Com. (i) cit. in statute quot. in sup. After decedent's daughter filed a petition for informal appointment as personal representative in intestacy to administer decedent's estate, decedent's brother filed a petition for formal proceedings to probate as an enforceable will a video recording in which decedent left his possessions to brother, which decedent made prior to being killed in a motorcycle accident. The trial court denied brother's petition. This court affirmed, holding that a video recording was not a document that could qualify as decedent's will within the meaning of the state statute governing intended wills. The court cited Restatement Third of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers § 3.1 in pointing out that all statutes, including the original and revised versions of the Uniform Probate Code, required a will to be in writing, and noted that decedent's video recording lacked any form of statutory authentication, even under a liberal construction of the provision. Matter of Estate of Beck, 557 P.3d 1255, 1258. PART B. RELATED DOCTRINES § 3.6 Incorporation by Reference Conn.App.2024. Quot. in sup., com. (b) quot. in sup, com. (h) cit. in sup. After the probate court decreed that a 99-year lease agreement for a commercial property that commenced on the death of the property owner was invalid, tenant, who was the daughter of the deceased property owner, filed an action against beneficiaries of the owner's will who were bequeathed the commercial property on which COPYRIGHT C2025 By THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America For earlier citations, see the Appendices, Supplements, or Pocket Parts, if any, that correspond to the subject matter under examination.