Court of Appeals Holds That Filing a Trust Dispute as a Civil Action Does Not Create a Jurisdictional Defect

This appeal arose from a probate dispute among siblings over administration of a family trust, filed as a civil action rather than as a probate proceeding initiated by petition. The COA held that this filing error was procedural, not jurisdictional, and did not deprive the probate court of subject-matter jurisdiction or deny the defendant-trustee due process.