Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Greenleaf
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 17, 1998PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
—Decree, Surrogate’s Court, New York County (Renee Roth, S.), entered on or about April 18, 1997, settling the account of the executors and awarding legal fees of $372,000, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The Surrogate correctly denied vacatur of the stipulated agreement with respect to the allocation of the joint bank account held in the testatrix’s and her surviving spouse’s names, since the objectant failed to raise any triable issue as to fraud, mistake, duress or overreaching (see, Matter of Guttenplan, 222 AD2d 255, 256-257, lv denied 88 NY2d 812; Matter of Rebell v Trask, 220 AD2d…
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