In re Weinraub

The Surrogate’s Court providently exercised its discretion in removing appellant as trustee of the captioned trust (see SCPA 719 [1], [3], [10]; 711 [3], [8], [12]; Matter of Duke, 87 NY2d 465, 472-473 [1996]). The appellant failed to account over many years, despite repeated requests by a cotrustee and beneficiary and a court order compelling him to do so by a date certain. In a parallel proceeding in Westchester County, the appellant, who is an attorney, was removed as trustee of the same decedent’s testamentary trusts after he not only failed to purge a contempt order by providing…