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Court orders closure of long-pending Stephen Brown estate after Oklahoma ancillary probate resolved
Summary
A county judge authorized closing a probate estate opened in 1996 after attorneys and an Oklahoma representative presented documents showing an ancillary probate in Pittsburgh County, Oklahoma, had been concluded; the judge instructed filing of the Oklahoma closing order and the interim accounting for the Tennessee court file.
A county court authorized closing the probate estate of Stephen Brown after hearing that an ancillary probate proceeding in Oklahoma has been resolved and that funds remaining in the Tennessee estate are accounted for.
The case had remained on the court’s show-cause docket because of an ancillary probate in Oklahoma connected to oil and gas leases; the local court required documentary proof of the Oklahoma closure before dismissing the Tennessee probate.
What happened in court: Christy McClendon, who identified herself as the personal representative in the Oklahoma probate, told the court that the Oklahoma probate had been concluded and that she had submitted a final accounting there.…
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