BAILEY, J.
. . . On July 6, 2009, the Estate submitted its Petition to Settle the Final Account and Supplemental Petition for the Allowance of Attorney’s Fees. James and Robert disputed both the final accounting and the fees. On September 4, 2009, after a Final Accounting and two amended Final Accountings, the court approved the Estate’s Third Amended Final Accounting after the Estate made appropriate revisions to these documents as ordered by the court.
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James and Robert contend that the Third Amended Final Accounting was approved by the probate court nine days after it was submitted and without notice to the parties, and that the court thereby erred as a matter of law. For its part, the Estate refers us to Shuey v. Lambert for the proposition that the Third Amended Final Accounting is a judgment by the trial court, and not an amended pleading:
Where exceptions are filed to a final report of an executor, and, upon trial of the issues so joined, some of the exceptions are sustained, and the executor ordered to amend his report in accordance with the finding of the court, which he does, and the court thereupon approves the report, it has been held that such amended report filed in obedience to the order of the court after trial of the exceptions is not filed in the sense of an amended pleading, and that the report as amended and approved in such case is in fact the judgment of the court. From this it follows that appellant’s exceptions to the conclusions of law are still effective to test the correctness of such conclusions on any question affecting his legal rights which was originally raised by such exceptions, unless the amendments ordered by the court and made by the executor have cured the error, if any, shown by such exceptions when taken.
Shuey v. Lambert, 53 Ind. App. 567, 102 N.E. 150, 151-52 (1913) (citations omitted) (emphasis added).
Shuey is one in a line of cases that hold the accounting to be a complaint and exceptions to the accounting as answers to the complaint. Id.; also Lehnen v. State, 693 N.E.2d 580, 583 (Ind. Ct. App. 1998) (applying the rule to appraisers’ reports in eminent domain actions), trans. denied; Best Realty Corp. v. State, 400 N.E.2d 1204, 1205-06 (Ind. Ct. App. 1980) (also applying to eminent domain actions); Pohlmeyer v. Second Nat. Bank of Richmond, 118 Ind. App. 651, 660, 81 N.E.2d 709, 713 (1948) (applied in the context of an estate). Taken with the rule in Shuey, the Third Amended Final Accounting approved by the probate court here is a final order subject to challenge under Trial Rule 59 or on appeal because, coming pursuant to court order as a corrected version of the Second Amended Final Accounting which the court in turn approved, it constitutes a final judgment by the probate court. James and Robert therefore had no right to notice and an opportunity to be heard on the Third Amended Final Accounting after the Estate submitted it to the court for approval.
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We cannot accept James’s and Robert’s argument that any accounting must be subject to notice and hearing to interested parties. Such an interpretation is unworkable, as the most contentious estates would never be closed if we adopted James’s and Robert’s interpretation of the statute. It also defeats the purpose of the relatively short periods set forth by the Probate Code for the steps of the probate process.
In light of the foregoing, we hold that the probate court did not err as a matter of law when it approved the Estate’s third amended accounting without affording time for notice and a hearing.
RILEY, J., and KIRSCH, J., concur.