Executor under Prior Will Lacked Standing in Will Contest

The sister of the decedent, who was the decedent’s sole intestate heir but whose only interest under the previous will of the decedent (from 1987) was as an executor, had no standing to appeal from the probate of the decedent’s 2019 will under 20 Pa.C.S. § 908(a), the possibility of the prior will being held invalid being “too remote and speculative to confer standing.”  In re: Estate of Mary Ellen Netzel, 984 WDA 2022 (Pa. Super. 8/11/2023) (non-precedential), aff’g, 1 Fid.Rep.4th 223 (Allegheny O.C. 2022) (see “Niece Not Named in Prior Wills Did Not Have Standing to Contest Later Will“).

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