Legal Opinion

In re Brown

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided March 15, 1913PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Petition by guardian for an allowance for support and maintenance of two female wards.

1Opinion of the Court

Fowler, S.

This matter comes, on for hearing on a petition of the guardian for an annual allowance of $18,000 for the future support and maintenance of two infant females, and also for an allowance of $27,724.68 for their past maintenance, all to be paid out of the income of the infants’ estate. It is unnecessary to say that the general rule is that the entire cost of maintenance of well-to-do infants shall not exceed the sum total of the interest on capital. This application I understand does not involve a resort to principal.

The application for an allowance out of the estate of an infant is…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Voëssing v. VoëssingNew York Surrogate's Court · 1880
  2. In re the Estate of GoodwinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. In re the Estate of KummerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1983
  2. In re Rita N.New York Family Court · 1983
  3. Pierce v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2022
  4. Ryle v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2022

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