Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Bruno
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 15, 1987PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Mikoll, J.
Appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Chemung County (Danaher, Jr., S.), entered February 24, 1986, which adjudged that Surrogate’s Court had jurisdiction over the parties and ruled that petitioner was entitled to take an elective share of decedent’s joint bank account.
Decedent, Marion D. Bruno, died intestate in New York on February 22, 1983. She made no testamentary disposition to provide for petitioner, her husband of 59 years, who survived her. Prior to her death, decedent had maintained a joint bank account with her mother with the right of survivorship in a bank in…
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- McGowan v. SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
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