Opinion ID: 1246907
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: cost of this appeal

Text: First Trust suggests that we consider assessing its costs and attorney's fees on this appeal against Conway's share of the estates as an appropriate method of dealing with her unrestrained and unsubstantiated accusations. We agree. We have fully examined the record and carefully considered her issues to satisfy ourselves that there was no serious symptom in her legal hypochondria. We have found none. We conclude that her sweeping accusations are unreasonable and that her claims of misconduct by First Trust are entirely unsubstantiated. This public airing of her private obsession ought to be at her personal expense. As the Nebraska Supreme Court recently observed: It seems to us that the probate code should not be construed so as to permit one heir or devisee to finance his or her lawsuit against another heir or devisee out of the funds of the estate, ...; In Re Estate of Kesting, 220 Neb. 524, 371 N.W.2d 107, 109 (1985). Accordingly, we exercise our powers under Rule 38, N.D.R.App.P., and direct an award accordingly. We order that First Trust be paid its reasonable compensation, attorney's fees and costs on this appeal out of Conway's share of the estate only, rather than from the total estate as has been done heretofore.