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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Fraud

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IN THE UNITED ST ATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

NORTHERN DIVISION 

IN RE ELIJAH AND MARY 

STINY TRUSTS 

ORDER 

No. 3:19-cv-346-DPM 

1. Status report, Doc. 175, appreciated and approved. Lilly's 

work on behalf of the trustee from 14 June 2021 to 15 December 2021 

was reasonable and necessary. No one has opposed payment of his bill, 

Doc. 175-1. The Court therefore authorizes the trustee to pay Martin 

Lilly $7,500.00 from Regions account No. xxxx4646. 

2. Elijah Nicholas Stiny' s motion for leave to amend his contest 

of trust and counter-petition, Doc. 167, is partly granted and partly 

denied. The clarifying changes on the long-pending main issues are 

helpful. But the proposed new claim - financial abuse of an elder by 

Mary Stiny under CAL. WELF. & INST. CODE§ 15610.30 (West 2014) -

faces an insurmountable difficulty. The alleged financial abuse 

occurred before Mr. Stiny died in 2010. After Mrs. Stiny died, notice of 

the opening of her estate was first published in October 2019. Doc. 87-

1 at 14. At the latest, therefore, the financial abuse claim about Mrs. 

Stiny's actions had to be asserted by April 2020. ARK. CODE ANN.§ 28-

50-101 (a)-(c). The proposed amendment raising this claim came in 

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December 2021, Doc. 167, approximately eighteen months after the bar 

date. Amending to assert this untimely claim would be futile. 

FED. R. CIV. P. 15 (a)(2); Doe v. Dardanelle School District, 928 F.3d 722, 

727-28 (8th Cir. 2019). Elijah Nicholas Stiny's amended contest of trust 

and counter-petition, minus the time-barred financial abuse of an elder 

claim, is due by 14 January 2022. 

So Ordered. 

D .P. Marshall fr. 

United States District Judge 

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