New York County Surrogate Nora Anderson recently denied a summary judgment motion on an objection based on undue influence. The proponent of the will started as decedent’s part-time health aide...
Surrogate Frank Labuda ruled that under SCPA §2110 the court had discretion to award attorney fees from estate funds to pay legal fees for service renderd by consel to the...
Suffolk County Surrogate John Czygier Jr. in a recent decision order the fees of Court appointed Guardian ad Litems to be paid personally by a Trustee who distributed trust funds...
Manhattan Surrogate Rita Mella decided to order a posthumous genetic marker test in the contested proceeding to compel the account of the estate’s administrator The court noted it must determine...
New York County Surrogate Rita Mella found a will signed by the decedent to be valid despite his advanced age and some visual impairments. Because execution was supervised by an...
Surrogate Robert Gigante from Richmond County recently held that in a situation where a house was the sole asset of an estate the sale of the real property was expressly...