In Re Estate of Rabinowitz

Opinion

RUBIN, J.

Laurel Green Fisher Rabinowitz appeals from the trial court’s order denying her petition to declare invalid the power of attorney that decedent Benjamin Rabinowitz granted to his brother. We affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Benjamin Rabinowitz, who customarily used Ben as his first name, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in July 1999. On August 11, 1999, he signed a durable power of attorney form naming his brother, respondent Daniel Fisher, as his attorney in fact. That day or the next, Ben told his mother, respondent Jenee Fisher Rabinowitz, that he had given…