For many families, the administration of a decedent's estate proceeds quietly and efficiently. Assets are gathered, debts are ...

We are increasingly seeing more disputes over the validity of marriages in probate litigation. A recurring fact pattern is that a romantic partner will attempt to orchestrate a marriage to the second ...

At the recent Continuing Legal Education (CLE) meeting of the Bay Ridge Lawyers Association (BRLA), held at Mama Rao’s in Dyker Heights on Jan. 30, members were treated to an enlightening presentation ...

When a petitioner offers a will for probate, and the propounded instrument’s validity is contested, objectants oftentimes raise undue influence as an objection to the admission of the will to probate.

Most people have heard of Will Contests and Trust Contests where the validity of a will or trust is contested by allegations of undue influence or lack of capacity to execute the will or trust.

In a contested probate proceeding, the decedent's son moved for an order enforcing a stipulation of settlement in a divorce action between the decedent and his surviving spouse/petitioner; declaring ...

Objectants to an instrument purporting to be decedent's will moved for summary judgment dismissing decedent's son's petition for probate in this contested probate proceeding alleging duress. Proponent ...

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