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Try CasePortal for FreePer curiam, the supreme court finds the ex-husband has not met his burden to force the lower court to issue rulings on motions he filed in a lawsuit involving partition of a property he and his now deceased ex-wife jointly owned as a couple before their marriage was dissolved. The lower court acted within its authority when it ruled in April 2023 that it would not make any further rulings in the case until a representative was appointed for the deceased ex-wife, whose death the ex-husband added to the record against court procedures in February 2023 with a phone call to chambers and a filed copy of the death certificate. The ex-husband also has not shown he has a "clear and indisputable" right to an order advancing his case on an expedited calendar based on the argument that, at 89 years old, he is entitled to advancement under part of the Virgin Islands Code granting litigants the right to petition for that preference if they are over 70, as the constitutionality of the mandatory elderly preference has been called into question and may well present due process, equal protection and separation of powers issues. The ex-husband's mandamus petition is denied.