Mississippi appeals court upholds 2003 will, leaving most of estate to cousins

A dispute over a Mississippi man’s estate has ended with the Court of Appeals upholding a will signed more than two decades earlier. The case, In the Matter of the Estate of Lamar DeLoach, decided on 10 November 2026, turned on whether a later document had validly revoked the 2003 will, and whether the brother who claimed the estate had enough evidence to prove his version of events, as per the report on Justia U.S. Law.Lamar DeLoach signed a last will and testament on 18 July 2003 and died on 23 January 2023. His cousins, Larry and Rodney DeLoach, filed to probate that will shortly after his death, while his brother, Frank DeLoach, argued that Lamar had later made and then destroyed a newer will. Read more details about it, as per the court report, here:The 2003 will and its termsThe 2003 will was prepared by attorney Phil Embry, who signed the document as a witness along with his secretary, Teena Newton. It named Larry and Rodney as co-executors and left $100,000 to Garner Jo Myers.The remainder of Lamar’s property was left to Larry and Rodney, his cousins. That arrangement became the foundation of the estate plan that the court ultimately upheld.On 28 February 2023, Larry and Rodney filed a petition to probate the 2003 will.