In re the Estate of Williams

Frankenthaler, S.

This is a motion to punish respondents for contempt for failure to comply with the terms of a decree in discovery. The respondents were given an opportunity to establish facts that would justify the court’s denial of the application in the exercise of the discretion granted by section 84 of the Surrogate’s Court Act. However, the respondents failed to convince the court that they had completely dissipated the funds which were the subject of discovery or that their previous expenditures of a part thereof had been made in good faith under a mistaken belief that the funds were…