In re the Estate of Vizzie

OPINION OF THE COURT

John J. Fromer, J.

These proceedings are brought by the Greene County Department of Social Services against the administrators of each of the named estates, to compel the filing of intermediate accounts. In each estate, a renunciation of distributive share was filed by a presumptive distributee, to whom the department had previously furnished substantial Medicaid services for nursing home care, for which it is entitled to be reimbursed out of the property of the service recipient. The department’s status in both cases is thus that of a creditor of a beneficiary of the…