A New York Probate Lawyer said that, the decree admitting this testator’s will to probate restrained the executor from paying or satisfying any legacy or distributive share until further order of the Surrogate. The executor now moves to have such restriction removed. The facts essential to a decision are not…
A New York Probate Lawyer said that, the Government of British Honduras, appearing specially, petitioned this court for permission to appear specially in the contested probate proceeding for the purpose of taking appropriate steps to assert its rights in that proceeding. It alleges that the decedent was domiciled in British…
A New York Probate Lawyer said that, the decedent, a resident of this county, died in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on July 27, 1959. An instrument executed by her in Massachusetts has been submitted for probate. The facts regarding its execution are undisputed. The instrument was written, upon instructions of the…
A New York Probate Lawyer said that, the petitioner, asserting a status as the widow of the deceased, seeks an order under section 20 of the Surrogate’s Court Act re-opening the decree admitting the will to probate. In support of her application she relies upon the omission of the respondent…
A New York Probate Lawyer said that, the administrator of the estate of the decedent, and petitioner in a turnover proceeding against respondent Companies, and law firm counsel to the Public Administrator of the County of New York, now seeks summary judgment and treble damages. Respondent cross-moves for summary judgment,…
A New York Probate Lawyer said that, the decree denying probate to the propounded instrument reserved for determination by supplemental decree all applications for costs, allowances, and fees. The attorney for petitioner who claims to be the sole statutory distributee of the decedent, asks the court to fix his reasonable…
In this Estate Litigation case, the executor of the decedent’s estate has instituted this proceeding for construction of the decedent’s will. A New York Probate Lawyer said that the testator, a resident of Paris, France, albeit a citizen of the United States died in March 1966. The value of his…
On 16 July 1983, a decedent died leaving a will. He was survived by several children, one of whom receives less than his distributive share in the estate under the propounded will. A New York Probate Lawyer said that on 8 September 1983, the probate petition, a will contest proceeding,…
In a court proceeding, a complainant filed a motion to stay pending the determination of an appeal from an order of the civil court. New York Probate Lawyers said that upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in opposition, the court consequently ordered that…
A New York Probate Lawyer said in an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiffs allegedly sustained personal injuries when the limb of a tree fell onto the motor vehicle in which they were traveling, in the defendant Village of Great Neck Estates. Thereafter, a Nassau Estate Litigation…