In re the Estate of Danyluck

OPINION OF THE COURT

Eugene E. Peckham, J.

*242Decedent died on July 3, 2003, leaving a will dated November 22, 1971. The petitioner-executor was an attorney admitted to practice in this state and drafted the will offered for probate. Thereafter he maintained “limited contact” with the decedent. He has submitted an affidavit in which he states that about 1995 he retired from practice and in early 1996 moved to Virginia but then moved back to Owego, New York, in September 1998. Throughout this period he retained his license to practice law until it lapsed at the end of 2000. Since he is no longer…