In re the Estate of Baecher

—In an administration proceeding, the appeal is from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Westchester County (Emanuelli, S.), dated February 27, 1991, which disqualified the appellant from taking a distributive share of the estate of his son, Charles E. Baecher.

Ordered that the decree is affirmed, with costs payable by the appellant personally.

EPTL 4-1.4 (a) provides that ”[n]o distributive share in the estate of a deceased child shall be allowed to a parent who has failed or refused to provide for, or has abandoned such child”. The petitioner’s sole contention in seeking to disqualify the…