This action involves a case where the court considered that defendant violated a certain restrictive covenant claimed by plaintiffs to affect the lots or parcels of land within an area located in the Borough of Brooklyn. In the year 1893, deceased died testate seized of said real property. His will…
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Court Discusses Supplemental Needs Trust
This is a probate proceeding in regard to the deceased, Edward R. Barclay’s will. The case is being heard in the Surrogate’s Court of the State of New York in Nassau County. The judge in the case is John B. Riordan. Probate Issues In this particular probate case there are…
Plaintiff Filed Objection to Probate of Will
Suffolk Probate 13 The plaintiff in this case is Rachel Kuncman. The defendants in the case are Steven A. Sherman, American Portfolios Financial Services, Inc., the Abraham Salomon and Tobi Weinstein estates both individually ans as the executrix of the Abraham Salomon estate. The case is being heard in the…
Court Decides on Payments to Ancillary Executor
The woman died leaving a Will. At the time of her death, the woman was a resident of Florida and supplementary letters of estate administration were issued to the executor of the estate. The accounting covers the period May 3, 2004 to April 21, 2009. An amended accounting covering the…
Court Decides Reasonable Attorney’s Fees in Estate Matter
This is a case being heard in the Surrogate’s Court of New York County. The issue of the case deals with the estate of Emma B. Johnson. The executor and petitioner for the estate is Norman W. Roe. The respondents in the case are Long Island College Hospital, The Industrial…
Court Discusses Attorney Client Privlege
A man and his wife consulted a lawyer to plan the disposition of their estates on the event of their demise. The man and his wife both executed individual wills based on the advice and opinion of the lawyer they both consulted. When the man died, his will was submitted…
Petitioner Questions Legal Fees for Estate Administration
In this proceeding, the two estate administrators contested to the final accounting of the last will and testament of a man. They contested to the two stipulations signed by the interested parties to the accounting. The court previously issued a decision in which the attorneys of the complainants were directed…
Court Discusses Decedent’s Endowment Fund
The wife of a chemical engineering professor left a piece of real property which comprised a substantial portion of her estate worth around $2,800,000 to a polytechnic university. She also left the sum of $2,000,000 as a charitable endowment gift to the same polytechnic university provided that it shall be…
Trustee Brings Action to be Reimbursed for Expenses
The facts: A mother (hereinafter The Mother) lived with her son (hereinafter The Son). The son was devoted to his mother. A New York Probate Lawyer said she was unable to handle her own affairs, thus, he supervised her medical care. He managed her financial affairs and made sure that…
Court Authenticates Last Will and Testament
This case is being heard in the Surrogates Court of Suffolk County. The matter at hand involves the issue of proving the last will and testament of the deceased, Sigrid C. Lockwood as a will of real property and personal property. The case also deals with a petition regarding the…