IN RE ESTATE OF GRACE T. RELLA, ETC., DECEASED. VINCENT RELLA Objectants-ap

9868. IN RE ESTATE OF GRACE T. RELLA, ETC., DECEASED. VINCENT RELLA Objectants-ap — GILBERT F. RELLA, Executor-res — Harry Amer, White Plains, for ap — Howard W. Rachlin, New York (Louis Klieger of counsel), for res — Order, Surrogate’s Court, New York County (Nora S. Anderson, S.), entered March 29, 2012, which granted executor-respondent’s motion for partial summary judgment dismissing the objections, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Objectants failed to raise a triable issue as to capacity, where they offered only the general comment by one of them that decedent, for the period of about a year was “at times confused,” and executor offered the testimony of three disinterested witnesses – decedent’s doctor, lawyer, and accountant – who all met with her at or just before the making of the gift, and found her fully aware and alert (see Feiden v. Feiden, 151 AD2d 889 [3d Dept 1989]). Nor was the Surrogate bound by our prior decision on the objections of a different objectant in 2000, as that determination was made before much of the relevant discovery. Objectants failed to show that executor had a confidential relationship with decedent. Thus, they bore the burden of showing undue influence. Because they failed to show anything more than routine dealings of children assisting an ailing parent, summary judgment was proper dismissing this claim (Feiden, 151 AD2d at 891 [mere family relationship or sickness of decedent not sufficient, per se, to demonstrate undue influence]).