In re the Estate of Vernon

OPINION OF THE COURT

Ernest L. Signorelli, S.

In this accounting proceeding, the decedent’s first wife is objecting to the account filed which provides that she and her two sons make a pro rata contribution to the payment of estate taxes. The parties have stipulated to waive an evidentiary hearing and agreed to submit the matter to the court for a determination predicated on the papers filed herein, i.e., the pleadings and affidavits in support thereof, the account, and the litigants’ memoranda of law. Although the sons of the objectant have not appeared in this proceeding, the parties have…