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BOARD OF EDUCATION v. BROWNING

No. 50, September Term, 1993.

333 Md. 281 (1994)

635 A.2d 373

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND v. PAULA M. BROWNING, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF ELEANOR HAMILTON.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 10, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger W. Titus (Elisabeth S. Rubin, Venable, Baetjer and Howard, on brief), Rockville, for appellant.

Christopher L. Beard (Jacqueline J. Judd, on brief), Annapolis, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves the concept of equitable adoption, and in particular, whether a person, if equitably adopted, may inherit by intestate succession from the sister of an equitably adoptive parent.

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Eleanor G. Hamilton, a resident of Montgomery County, died intestate in August, 1990, leaving an estate valued at $394,405.57. At the time of her death, Hamilton had no known living blood relatives. Appellee Paula M. Browning was...

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