Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Blake
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 19, 2001PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Crew III, J.
Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Warren County (Austin, S.), entered January 18, 2000, which determined that petitioner was entitled to take an elective share against the estate of his deceased wife.
Petitioner and Patricia S. Blake (hereinafter decedent) were married in June 1971. In April 1972, they executed a mutual waiver of the right of election, each according to the other “the absolute and unrestricted privilege and power to dispose of any and all property on death,” thereby waiving, insofar as is relevant to this appeal, any right of election under EPTL…
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- In re the Estate of SchuellainAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000
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