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New York Law Journal

Matter of Cooper

By | December 15, 2014
Guardian Appointed for AIP on Consent For Indefinite Duration to Marshal Assets
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Trustee, Ex-Client Alleges 'Fee Churning'

An estate trustee sues the estate of Houston lawyer Ronald B. Pruitt and his firm, alleging Pruitt advised her to unnecessarily set up a guardianship.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Will of D'Ambrosio

By | December 12, 2014
Incomplete Discovery, Factual Issues Bar Granting Summary Judgment in Will Contest
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Matter of Valerie L. S.

By | December 12, 2014
AIP Did Not Choose, But Acquiesced to Son's Selection of Counsel; Attorney Disqualified
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Estate of Figuereo

By | December 12, 2014
Father Disqualified From Receiving Share Of Wrongful Death Settlement Proceeds
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

American General Life Ins. Co. v. Diana Spira 2005 Irrevocable Life Ins. Trust

By | December 12, 2014
Despite Misrepresentation of Income, Net Worth, Insurer Loses Bid to Void $5 Million Life Policy
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Estate of Brown

By | December 10, 2014
Court Recuses Itself in Estate Suit As It Presided in Prior MHL Article 81 Action
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Guardianship Hearing Moved to Elderly Woman's Home

A Bronx Supreme Court justice abruptly terminated an in-court guardianship proceeding last month and reconvened it an hour later in the bedroom of a 93-year-old woman, whose assets her son and daughter were bitterly fighting to control.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Matter of Whylie

By | December 09, 2014
Petitioner Denied Removal of Administrator, Depositing Funds Held in Escrow Into Court
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Revisiting 2014: Cases That Shaped Surrogate's Court Practice

By | December 08, 2014
In her Trusts and Estates Update, Ilene Sherwyn Cooper discusses a myriad of decisions over the past 12 months involving fees incurred by multiple fiduciaries, the presumption of due execution accorded an attorney-supervised will execution, the removal of a fiduciary, the meaning of "tangible personal property," and more.
13 minute read

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