SCOV Law

There's a lot going on here By Andy Delaney Jeez. I don't know the last time SCOV issued a half-dozen opinions in a week.  That should work for a future callback.  Kruska has already covered the other three  and I think she did, in fact, do it before I read her texts (as advertised).  We'll start with a case about mutual wills, estate planning, and what happens when someone doesn't follow the plan. This is a long one. And this ain't the first nor second time at SCOV. This is McHugo III.    Back in the day, John and Patricia McHugo divorce but keep their assets together—joint accounts, joint Tucson house, joint everything—so as to avoid probate by survivorship. In 1997, as part of John's estate planning, they execute mirror-image mutual wills in Arizona. Each will is "executed in consideration of" the other, and they basically agree not to revoke or alter them (unless they agree). The basic plan is that the "survivor" uses the property for li...