Supreme Court of Alabama
Ex Parte Alice Lynn Harper Taylor (in Re: William Charles Harper and James Robison Harper, Jr. v. Alice Lynn Harper…
October 13, 2017252 So. 3d 637
Summary
The Alabama Supreme Court held that the Monroe Probate Court is the proper venue and has exclusive jurisdiction over the probate of the 2007 will and related contests, reversed the lower courts' dismissals, and granted the petition to transfer the will contest to the circuit court. The Court reversed and remanded the cases for further proceedings consistent with its venue analysis and affirmed the mandamus relief on the transfer issue.