In re the Estate of Chamberlin

Lahtinen, J.P.

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Washington County (McKeighan, S.), entered March 6, 2015, which, in a proceeding pursuant to EPTL article 8, denied petitioners’ application to remove the investment restrictions of decedent’s will.

Leon C. Chamberlin (hereinafter decedent) died in 1999 and his will made bequests to, among many others, three churches — petitioners herein — in the amounts of about $217,000, $460,000 and $260,000. The will directed each petitioner to hold such funds in trust, invest only in insured bank accounts and government securities and use the…