The petitioners of this probate case wanted to withdraw their petition and requested the court to issue letters of administration. The petitioners wanted to abandon their action placing on probate the alleged copy of the testament. According to the last will and testament of the decedent, the remaining estate will…
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Court Rules on Undue Influence Allegations
The petitioners in this case have filed a motion for summary judgment which will dismiss the public administrator’s objections. The petitioners are also seeking the admission of the testator’s will for probate. Before the death of the testator, he had been living in a facility for the elderly for many…
Beneficiaries Claim Estate Administrator is Dishonest
According to reports from a surrogate’s court, a decedent was survived by his wife, and two children from a previous marriage. In his last will and testament, he had chosen his wife to act as estate administrator. Upon his death, the will was submitted to probate court. The court named…
Court Rules on Allegations of Undue Influence
The petitioners in this case have filed a motion for summary judgment which will dismiss the public administrator’s objections. The petitioners are also seeking the admission of the testator’s will for probate. Before the death of the testator, he had been living in a facility for the elderly for many…
Court Rules on Will Contest
The petitioners of this probate case wanted to withdraw their petition and requested the court to issue letters of administration. The petitioners wanted to abandon their action placing on probate the alleged copy of the testament. According to the last will and testament of the decedent, the remaining estate will…
Court Rules on Joint Wills Matter
A couple executed a Joint Will that will make whoever is the survivor among them as the one to be given the entire property whether own individually or several and be the executor of the irrevocable Joint Will. The Joint Will further provided that whatever remained after the death of…
Court Rules on Jurisdictional Issues regarding Will
A son from California filed for an order dismissing the pending proceeding to probate his mother’s New York Will that raises an interesting question of jurisdiction. The son argues the jurisdiction of the court to prove the validity of the Will of a non-residence which requests New York to prove…
Court Rules on Will Contest
The issues being raised in this estate case have two aspects. One issue talks about the objection of probate on the last will and testament of the deceased. Another issue raised on the case was whether the main executor of the will had the right to request for discovery proceeding…
Court Rules on Bank Fraud Allegations
A man who died in New York City was survived by two brothers. One lived in Endicott and the youngest in Pennsylvania who drove to Endicott and arrived in the evening to attend his brother’s funeral the following day. A New York Probate Lawyer said that prior to the funeral,…
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The appellants of a probate case have filed for an objection against the original ruling of probate by the court. The court did not accept the objections of the appellants. According to the objections of the appellants, they asserted that the surrogate court should have used its authority to decide…