In an ongoing estate dispute between a widow and her children, the applicant widow brought a motion to add two corporate parties, admit a late affidavit regarding her health, substitute written interrogatories for oral cross-examination, and determine the scope of cross-examination.
The court added the corporate parties, finding one to be a necessary party.
The court admitted the late affidavit but excluded the attached medical reports as inadmissible hearsay.
The court declined to dispense with oral cross-examination, finding insufficient evidence of serious harm, but ordered specific accommodations for the 93-year-old applicant.
Finally, the court limited the scope of cross-examination to the three issues previously deemed urgent to conserve judicial resources.
