Probate Lawyers said this is a proceeding to construe Article Sixth of testator’s will which was admitted to probate on March 9, 1961. By said article testator bequeathed his residuary estate in trust, to invest and reinvest ‘and to pay to my beloved wife so much of the income therefrom…
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Parties Seek Leave to File Amended Objections in Probate Case
In this contested accounting proceeding several applications seeking pre-trial relief have been submitted. Specifically said applications are as follows: A. Application by objectants, by orders to show cause, inter alia, to amend objections and to join additional parties; and B. Application to cancel notices of pendency pursuant to Article 65…
Probate Court Interprets Testator’s Will
Probate Lawyers said this is a proceeding to construe Article Sixth of testator’s will which was admitted to probate on March 9, 1961. By said article testator bequeathed his residuary estate in trust, to invest and reinvest ‘and to pay to my beloved wife so much of the income therefrom…
Court Discusses Order for Temporary Suport
Probate Lawyers said the issue before this court appears to be one of first impression. The question presented is does an order of temporary support cease if the matrimonial action abates? Stated slightly differently, may a pendente lite child support order be enforced after the underlying matrimonial action has abated…
Petition Files a Petition to Compel
New York Probate Lawyer said that RF died intestate in December, 1947 and letters of administration were issued to his widow, the respondent, in the same month. In September, 1948 respondent filed an income tax return for 1947 on behalf of the decedent. During the return’s audit, respondent executed three…
Court Decides Action for Partition of Real Property
Probate Lawyers said that an action for partition of real property, plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated December 5, 1983, as, after a nonjury trial, declared that defendant was the owner in fee simple of the…
Court Discusses Validity of Will
A Probate Lawyer said that according to sources, both cases involved issues as to the estate. In the first case, as an incident to an account by trustees of the trust for the benefit of testator’s daughter, which terminated by her death, a construction is sought of the validity of…
Petitioner Bring Motio to Construe Joint and Mutual Will
Probate Lawyers said this is a proceeding to construe a joint and mutual will executed by decedent and his wife on March 5, 1956. The wife died on March 31, 1964 and said instrument was probated in this Court as her last will and testament. Shortly thereafter decedent was adjudicated…
Court Rules on Proceeding to Settle Executors Account
Sources show that this is a proceeding to settle the executor’s account of a Trust Company. Objections have been filed on behalf of the deceased to the said accounting. The objectant claims title to one-third (1/3) of all property received by the executor as set forth in the account, or,…
Court Deals with Conflicting Interpretation of a Will
Probate Lawyers said before the Court is the petition of Mr. Dm for the construction of Clause Second of the Last Will and Testament of his mother, Mrs. M. The decedent died June 14, 1984 survived by her son, Dm, the petitioner herein, as her sole distributee. Mrs. M’ Will…