law marriage existed as a matter of law precluded a jury trial and denied the plea in intervention.
The probate court ultimately entered written orders reflecting its rulings on December 9, 2003. In the order regarding the in limine hearing, the court found that Schumann requested relief from the court involving the administration of the estate, thereby raising the issue of her standing. The court further found that Schumann failed to establish her claim of a common law marriage. As a result, the court dismissed Schumann's claims related to the administration of the estate.
In its order denying the plea in intervention, the probate court found that the only ground to support Schumann's plea in intervention was the re-urging of her common law marriage claim. The court further found thatPolice in southern Korea have arrested a suspect in the murder of three Koreans in the Philippines, in a fresh twist to a grisly saga first linked to a spate of vigilante killings.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Thursday said the suspect, surnamed Kim, was arrested in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province.

Earlier this month, the bodies of a Korean woman and two men were found in a sugar cane field in Bacolor, a town of around 30,000 people north of Manila.

They had gunshot wounds to their heads and their hands and legs were bound with duct tape, a hallmark of thousands of extrajudicial killings that have convulsed the Philippines in recent months.

Police said Kim lived in the Philippines when the murders took place and had been close to the