The two cases hereunder is about probate proceedings.In the first case involves a contested probate proceeding, the Court determines that the propounded instrument was not executed as required by Decedent Estate Law, § 21. This statute requires by subdivision 2 thereof, that decedent’s subscription of the instrument shall be made…
In a contested probate proceeding, the objectant appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County, dated April 11, 1986, as, upon a ruling made after close of all the evidence at a jury trial dismissing all her objections as a…
This case involves the enforcement of a sister-state divorce judgment, with respect to arrears in alimony and support payments, pursuant to the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (article 54 of the CPLR). In January 1973, the plaintiff-wife commenced an action for divorce in the Superior Court of the State…
Upon the foregoing papers, nonparty Geneva Alston, Administrator of the Estate of Mattie Dickens, moves by way of order to show cause for an order 1) cancelling the notice of pendency filed against the subject property on May 19, 2008 by plaintiff Citimortgage, Inc, successor in interest by merger to…
Mr. LM, a resident of Burlington, Vt., died in August, 1870, leaving a last will dated October 3, 1868, and a codicil thereto executed October 28, 1868, which will and codicil were admitted to probate in the state of Vermont on September 16, 1870, and letters testamentary thereon issued to…
The petitioner in this custody proceeding is the natural mother of a child born in 1976 in Brooklyn. The respondent is the child’s paternal grandmother, who was appointed by as guardian of the person for the child in December 1977. The petition alleges that in May, 1977 the father took…
A New York Probate Lawyer said the holographic will of the testator, a physician, has been admitted to probate. The Court finds no difficulty in upholding the validity of the testator’s testamentary scheme as maintained by the two special guardians. Although inartistic in form the will makes testator’s intentions clear.…
A New York Probate Lawyer said that according to sources, in the instant case, the complainant underwent surgery at a Medical Center, and the deceased served as his anesthesiologist. The anesthesiologist died on October 1, 2002 . On October 21, 2002, the anesthesiologist’s father, as executor of his estate, petitioned…
A New York Probate Lawyer said that records show that in the instant case, the decedent died on August 27, 2003 a resident of New York. She was survived by her son and her daughter. Her will of September 30, 1970 and a codicil thereto dated June 22, 1972 were…
The executors have requested construction of several provisions of Mrs. VK’s will admitted to probate in 1969. I Probate Lawyers said the principal problem concerns the meaning of the tax clause. Since the bulk of the estate consists of stock in a family corporation, construction of the tax clause in…