United States Eleventh Circuit

Because the plaintiffs are not deceased's son's biological children, and they have not been adopted, they are not considered deceased's son's biological children within the meaning of the will; awarding plaintiff's attorney fees to be paid from estate was error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/28/2002
• Published 03/28/2002

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stefan Ernst Ritter, Atlanta, GA, Manley F. Brown, O'Neal, Brown & Sizemore, P.C., John C. Clark, O'Neal, Brown & Clark, P.C., Macon, GA, Robert E. Hicks, Jeffery W. Cavender, Long, Aldridge & Norman, LLP, Atlanta, GA, B. Daniel Dubberly, Jr., Dubberly & McGovern, Glennville, GA, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Richard Tyndall, R. Lamar Moore, Wesley Jerome Lewis, Moore, Tyndall & Castellow, Moultrie, GA, Robert L. Pennington, Troutman Sanders, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Appellees.