In re the Estate of Bonanni

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Albany County (Marinelli, S.), entered April 2, 1997, which, inter alia, granted respondents’ motion for summary judgment declaring that decedent’s estate has no interest in certain real property.

In September 1983, Elizabeth Bonanni (hereinafter decedent) executed a deed conveying property at 547 Park Avenue in the City of Albany to herself and her son, respondent Louis Bonanni, as joint tenants with right of survivorship. On May 20, 1985, decedent’s attorney was instructed to add the name of respondent Edith Bonanni, Louis Bonanni’s wife, to…