Trusts & Estates – Contested estate

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WI Court of Appeals – District I

Case Name: Kenneth Drogotta v. Estate of Henry William Patrick Wittbrot, III

Case No.: 2015AP75

Officials: Curley, P.J., Kessler and Brennan, JJ

Practice Area: Trusts & Estates – Contested estate

Kenneth Dragotta, the Special Administrator for the Estate of Henry William Patrick Wittbrot, III, appeals from the circuit court’s order: (1) dismissing the Special Administration; (2) retitling to the Wittbrot heirs

property located in Dodge County and bank accounts previously titled to the W316 Children Trust; and (3) ordering Dragotta to personally pay $3515 to opposing counsel. Dragotta’s argument is twofold . . . We need not address issues raised for the first time on appeal. See Townsend v. Massey, 2011 WI App 160, ¶25, 338 Wis. 2d 114, 808 N.W.2d 155. As to Dragotta’s complaint regarding the circuit court’s order to retitle the Children Trust bank accounts, Dragotta fails to develop it. We need not develop his argument for him. See League of Women Voters v. Madison Cmty. Found., 2005 WI App 239, ¶19, 288 Wis. 2d 128, 707 N.W.2d 285. Accordingly, we conclude that the circuit court properly exercised its discretion in ordering the retitling of these assets as part of the dismissal sanction.

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