Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-31-2022

Abstract

In the Blackfeet Tribal Court of Appeals, the Court considered an appeal concerning the award of the family home in Blackfeet Tribal Court, disputing the proper successor in Death to the property, located on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The legal decedent owner of the home passed away in 2013, and legally conveyed the home by gift deed to the Appellant. The respondent produced a subsequent, unnotarized document purporting to dispute the prior conveyance. The court rejected the second document, awarding the home to the appellant. The Court clarified that the respondent failed to produce sufficient documentation to sustain her burden of proving her case. The decedents notarized documents evinced her clear wishes to convey the property to the appellant. The Court upheld the lower court ruling awarding the home to the appellant.

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