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____________________________________ * Retired Senior Judge assigned to the Superior Court. NON - PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37 RE: ESTATE OF IRENE OLICK BUNGARDY, DECEASED

APPEAL OF: THOMAS W. OLICK : : : : : : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF

PENNSYLVANIA

No. 1307 MDA 2017 Appeal from the Decree August 9, 2017 In the Court of Co mmon Pleas of Lackawanna County Orphans ’ Court at No(s): 35
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BEFORE: GANTMAN, P.J., McLAUGHLIN, J., and PLATT*, J. MEMORANDUM BY GANTMAN, P.J.: FILED JULY 20, 2018 Appellant, Thomas W. Olick, appeals from the decree entered in the Lackawanna County Orphans’ c ourt, following its decision on Appellant’s petition for removal of Appellee, Marguerite Dippel, as Co

- Executor of the Estate of Irene Olick Bungardy, dec eased, and related estate claims, and his motion to compel the Register of Wills to file and docket documents Appellant maintains have been refused. We affirm the decree and quash the appeal in part. The Orphans’ court decision and decree sets forth th e relevant facts of this case. Therefore we have no reason to restate them. The court held a hearing on Appellant’s petition on April 21, 2017, after which the parties continued to debate certain estate issues. On August 9, 2017, the court denied Appell ant’s claims for relief and granted in part Appellee’s motion to sell decedent’s residence. Appellant filed a notice of appeal on August 18, 2017. No concise statement of errors complained of on appeal, perJ
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Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) was ordered or filed. Appe llant raises these issues on appeal: [WHETHER THE ORPHANS ’ COURT ERRED WHEN I T: (1) OVERRULED APPELANT’S OBJECTIONS TO APPEL LEE DIPPEL’S INVENTORY O F DECEDENT’S ESTATE; (2) DENIED APPELLANT’S R EQUEST FOR SANCTIONS ; (3) DENIED APPELLANT’S M OTION TO REMOVE APPE LLE E DIPPEL AS CO
- EXECUTO R; (4) DENIED APPELLANT’S M OTION TO COMPEL APPE LLEE CLERK OF ORPHANS’ CO URT TO ACCEPT APPELLANT’S FILINGS; AND (5) GRANTED APPELLEE DIP PEL’S MOTION TO SELL DECEDENT’S RESIDENCE AT A PRIVATE SALE ?] (Appellant’s Brief at 2). Principally, Appellant complains that the court should have removed Appellee as Co
- Executor of the Estate of Irene Olick Bungardy, deceased , because Appellee failed to protect the estate’s assets and abused her position as Co
- Executor for personal gain , wh ich is prima facie evidence of fraud
. Appellant’s claim for sanctions relates to Appellee’s alleged failure to protect the estate and her alleged non - compliance with various court orders to produce pertinent documents
. Additionally, Appellant contends Ap pellee improperly included assets in the estate inventory, while also clandestinely excluding assets for her personal enrichment. Appellant also claims the clerk of Orphans’ court exceeded his authority when he wrongfully rejected the submission of docume nts directly related to the estate. AppellantJ
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concludes the Orphans’ court abused its discretion and erred as a matter of law in its decision, which must be reversed. We cannot agree.

Our standard of review of the findings of an [O]rphans’ court is deferential. When reviewing a decree entered by the Orphans’ [c]ourt, this Court must determine whether the record is free from legal error and the court’s factual findings are supported by the evidence. Because the Orphans’ [c]ourt sits as the fact

- finder, it determines the credibility of the witnesses and, on review, we will not reverse its credibility determinations absent an abuse of that discretion. However, we are not constrained to give the same deference to any resulting legal conclusions. [T]he Or phans’ court decision will not be reversed unless there has been an abuse of discretion or a fundamental error in applying the correct principles of law. In re Estate of Whitley, 50 A.3d 203, 206
- 07 (Pa.Super. 2012), appeal denied , 620 Pa. 724, 69 A.3d 60 3 (2013) (internal citations and quotation marks omitted). “[T]he Orphans’ Court decision will not be reversed unless there has been an abuse of discretion or a fundamental error in applying the correct principles of law.” In re Estate of Luongo , 823 A.2d 942, 951 (Pa.Super. 2003). “An abuse of discretion is not merely an error of judgment; if, in reaching a conclusion, the court overrides or misapplies the law, or the judgment exercised is shown by the record to be either manifestly unreasonable or the product of partiality, prejudice, bias or ill will, discretion has been abused.” Silver v. Pinskey, 981 A.2d 284, 291 (Pa.Super. 2009) ( en banc ) (quoting Mencer v. Ruch , 928 A.2d 294, 297J
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(Pa.Super. 2007)). “ Our scope of review is also limited: we determine only whether the court’s findings are based on competent and credible evidence of record. In re Estate of Karschner , 919 A.2d 252, 255
- 56 (Pa.Super. 2007) ( quoting In re Estate of Westin , 874 A.2d 139, 142 (Pa.Super. 2005) ). After a thorough review of the record, the briefs of the parties, the applicable law, and the well
- reasoned opinion of the Honorable Thomas J. Munley, we conclude Appellant’s issues merit no relief. The Orphans’ court opinion comprehensively discusses and properly dispos es of the questions presented. ( See Orphans’ Court Decision and Decree, dated August 9, 2017, at 2
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executor; Appellee Dippel’s administration of estate did not warrant sanction s ; evidence demonstrated bank accounts at issue were multiple
party joint accounts in names of both Decedent and Appellee Dippel, with right of survivorship; inclusion of these joint bank accounts in Decedent’s will does not negate right of survivorship; similarly, savings bonds Decedent bought during her lifetime were co

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claimed was missing from inventory; evidence indicated Appellee Dippel has complied with court’s orders regarding production of documents concerning estate matters, assets, and administration; bank accounts and savings bonds were not estate assets, because they were co
- owned by Decedent and Appellee Dippel upon Decedent’s death; when Decedent died , Appellee Dipple became owner of bank accounts and savings bonds via right of survivorship; assets passing outside est ate are not part of Decedent’s estate and are ex cluded from estate accounting and invent ory; c lerk of Orphans’

c ourt rejected Appellant’s filing of two civil suits, raising tort claims against Appellee Dippel and Appellee Dippel’s counsel; office staff of c lerk of Orphans’ co urt informed Appellant that documents regarding civil lawsuits must be filed in proper filing office, Clerk of Judicial Records; Appellant ’s attempt to file civil complaint for money damages in estate litigation was incorrect; c lerk of Orphans’ c ourt correctly directed Appellant to file his civil suits in proper manner ). 1 The record supports the Orphans’ court’s decision

_________________ ____________________ _______ 1 With respect to the claim regarding the court’s order allowing the sale of Decedent’s real estate, the court ordered the estate to l ist for sale the residence on the open market, because hiring a realtor is the proper way to dispose of the residence as an estate asset. Appellant requested an arm’s

length transaction, which the court granted. Appellant prevailed on this issue , so neit her he nor the estate is technically “ aggrieved ,” so he cannot appeal that decision. See Pa.R.A.P. 501 (stating only aggrieved party can appeal decision). Significantly, under Pa.R.A.P. 342, Appellant cannot appeal from an order allowing executors to mar ket realty in the estate; Appellant can appeal only from the order confirming the sale of the estate realty. See In re Estate of Krasinski , ___ A.3d ___, ___, 2018 PA Super (Footnote Continued Next Page)J
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and we have no reason to disturb it. Accordingly, as to all of Appellant’s issues, except his claim regarding the court’s order allowing Appellee to list Decedent’s real estate for sale, we affirm based o n the Orphan’s court’s decision and decree. Decree affirmed ; appeal quashed in part
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Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq. Prothonotary

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