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IN RE ESTATE OF FLOYD EDWARD FAULKNER

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jul 31, 2025

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1: Radford H. Dimmick, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jeremy Darrell Faulkner.

Attorneys 2: Radford H. Dimmick, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jeremy Darrell Faulkner. Randy Hillhouse, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, for the appellees, Brenda Sue England and the Estate of Floyd Edward Faulkner.

Judge(s): MCBRAYER

After the decedent’s most recent will was admitted to probate, the decedent’s grandson moved to certify standing for a will contest. The grandson claimed standing as a beneficiary of a prior will. After a couple of hearings, he came forward with signed copies of several prior wills that named him as a beneficiary. The trial court ruled the grandson lacked standing because he failed to produce an original instrument or establish a lost will. We conclude that the copies of the prior wills, standing alone, were insufficient to establish standing. So we affirm.

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