Rattner v. Rattner

Order, Surrogate’s Court, New York County (Nora S. Anderson, S.), entered on or about March 6, 2013, which, to the extent appealed from, denied petitioners Dawn Rattner and Bambi Rattner’s (petitioners) request for preliminary letters testamentary and directed that temporary letters issue to the Public Administrator, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs, preliminary letters granted to petitioners, and the Public Administrator’s temporary letters revoked.

Petitioners (decedent’s daughters) were nominated executors in each of the three wills executed by decedent. “A…