Lock v. Cunnyngham
Helen Lock, administrator with will annexed of the estate of decedent Robert Clifford Reed, appeals an order granting the petition for partial distribution of the estate filed by claimants David Cunnyngham, Kristy Fyffe, Amy Austin, and Mirna Cunnyngham (together Claimants). That petition, in effect, sought enforcement against the estate of a judgment enforcing a settlement agreement, the subject of a prior appeal we decided in Lock v. Cunnyngham (Apr. 25, 2013, D062047 [nonpub. opn.]) (Lock I). In Lock I, we affirmed, as modified, the trial court's March 22, 2012, judgment ordering Lock to pay Claimants $91,500 out of property in the estate in the course of administration. Claimants subsequently filed, and the probate court granted, a petition for partial distribution from the estate based on that judgment. On appeal, Lock contends the probate court erred by issuing the order granting Claimants' petition for partial distribution.
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