In re the Estate of Stafford

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Chenango County (Ames, S.), entered May 29, 2012, which, among other things, granted petitioner’s motion for summary judgment dismissing respondents’ objections to decedent’s will.

Charlotte F. Stafford (hereinafter decedent) died in 2010 and was survived by respondents — her three nephews — and their issue. Prior to her death, decedent had a keen interest in history and genealogy and served as the historian for the Town of Oxford in Chenango County. In 2001, decedent hired Vicky House to assist her with some typing; decedent and House became…