In re Kalichman

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Albany County (Doyle, S.), entered December 14, 2005, which, inter alia, granted petitioner’s motion for a preliminary injunction.

Joseph Kalichman (hereinafter decedent) died in December 2002 leaving behind a wife (respondent Rose Kalichman), two daughters (petitioner and respondent Linda Hiller) and a son *1067(respondent Morris Kalichman). Decedent was an active and successful businessman who had accumulated substantial wealth until he suffered a severe brain injury from a fall on ice in 1994.1 A November 2000 last will and testament executed by…