Legal Opinion

In re the Estate of Stern

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided December 1, 1961PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

g. gAMUEL Di Falco, S.

In this proceeding to settle his intermediate account the trustee requests the court to determine the meaning and legal effect of certain language used by the decedent in his last will and testament.

The will which was handwritten by the testator gives the decedent’s entire estate to his daughter Helen but by subsequent language cuts down this outright gift and in effect creates a trust of his entire estate with directions to pay the income to his daughter and the principal of the trust to the said daughter as follows: u at her twentieth year one-tenth of the estate shall…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. In re the Estate of RosenthalNew York Surrogate's Court · 1935
  2. In re the Accounting of VeninoNew York Surrogate's Court · 1957
  3. In re the Estate of JacobNew York Surrogate's Court · 1937
  4. In re the Estate of BouverieNew York Surrogate's Court · 1960

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. In re the Estate of CorriganNew York Surrogate's Court · 1962
  2. In re the Estate of van HogendorpNew York Surrogate's Court · 1962

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