Legal Opinion

In re Estate Ancona

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided April 18, 2005Published

1Opinion of the Court

In a contested proceeding to vacate a decree dated April 2, 2001, admitting the decedent’s will to probate, Joseph Ancona and Mary Guadagno appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court, Suffolk County (Czygier, S.), entered December 19, 2003, which granted the motion of Steven Ancona and Josephine Navarra for summary judgment.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs payable by the petitioners personally.

The appellants’ allegations were insufficient to set aside the waivers of citation and consent to probate executed by them (see Matter of Frutiger, 29 NY2d 143; Matter of Hall, 185 AD2d…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. In Re Estate of FrutigerNew York Court of Appeals · 1971
  2. In re the Estate of LeeperAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1976
  3. In re HallAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992

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