Opinion
SC 163981 COA 353951
06-02-2022
In re JOSEPH & SALLY GRABLICK TRUST. v. DOROTHY GRABLICK and JUDITH ALMASY, Appellees, KATELYN BANASZAK, Appellant, and JEFFREY GRABLICK, CRAIG L. WHITE, Trustee of the JOSEPH & SALLY GRABLICK TRUST, SALLY GRABLICK, J. M. DAVID HICKMOTT, LOUIS J. STEFANKO, NANCY HICKMOTT, JAMES HICKMOTT, and STEPHANIE ATCHISON, Other Parties. In re JOSEPH GRABLICK TRUST. KATELYN BANASZAK, Appellant, v. DOROTHY GRABLICK and JUDITH ALMASY, Appellees, and JEFFREY GRABLICK, CRAIG L. WHITE, Personal Representative of the ESTATE OFJOSEPH GRABLICK, SALLY GRABLICK, and J. M. DAVID HICKMOTT, Other Parties.
Genesee PC: 19-213790-TV, 19-212796-DA
Bridget M. McCormack, Chief Justice Brian K. Zahra David F. Viviano Richard H. Bernstein Elizabeth T. Clement Megan K. Cavanagh Elizabeth M. Welch, Justices
ORDER
On order of the Court, the application for leave to appeal the December 16, 2021 judgment of the Court of Appeals is considered. We direct the Clerk to schedule oral argument on the application. MCR 7.305(H)(1). The parties shall address whether divorce terminates a relationship by "affinity" under MCL 700.2806(e), thus causing "a disposition or appointment created by law or in a governing instrument to a relative of the divorced individual's former spouse" to be revoked under MCL 700.2807(1)(a)(i). See Shippee v Shippee's Estate, 255 Mich. 35, 37 (1931). See also In re Bordeaux Estate, 37 Wash.2d 561, 565 (1950).
The Family Law Section and the Probate and Estate Planning Section of the State Bar of Michigan are invited to file briefs amicus curiae. Other persons or groups interested in the determination of the issue presented in this case may move the Court for permission to file briefs amicus curiae.