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…
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…
Probate Lawyers said the widow of the testator has made this motion to disqualify the attorneys for the executors and their counsel, to restrain them from participating in the affairs of the estate and from continuing to appear for the executors in matters affecting the estate, and to require said…
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…
New York Probate Lawyers said 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…
Probate Lawyers said that decedent Mrs. AH died in 1940. Her will admitted to probate, after minor pre-residuary dispositions, created a trust for the income benefit of her daughter M with remainder to M’s children. The trust was funded in 1946 and administered by co-trustees M, the income beneficiary and…
Probate Lawyers said that in this action for a judicial settlement of a trustee’s account and for a construction of the will and codicils of the testator, the trustee moves for summary judgment. The testator died in September 1918, leaving a will and five codicils which were admitted to probate…
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…
In rendering her account for judicial settlement, the executrix-widow has presented a number of questions for adjudication, including construction of the will. Objections were filed by the decedent’s daughter (a devisee and residuary legatee), and a report was filed by the guardian ad litem appointed to represent the daughter’s two…
Probate Lawyers said the action by Y against BN for specific performance of a contract to purchase real property. Defendant obtained judgment, which was affirmed by the general term. Plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. This action was brought to compel the specific performance of a contract to purchases land. The defense was…