New Mexico Court of Appeals June 27, 2002, 21,813 (Gonzales v. Lopez)

OPINION

CASTILLO, Judge.

{1} In the final years of her life, Leonarda L. Lopez (Mother) transferred the bulk of her estate to her sons Leeroy and Eddie Paul Lopez and Leeroy’s wife, Ruthalene (Peggy) (together referred to as Defendants). Mother died in October 1996 at the age of ninety-two and was survived by her ten children. Daughter Rose L.