In re the Estate of Mann

S. Samuel Di Falco, S.

The petition of the accounting administrator seeks a decree determining that the husband of the decedent has forfeited his distributive share of the estate because of his abandonment of the decedent and his neglect and refusal to provide for her. (Decedent Estate Law, § 87-, subd. [c].) The husband is confined to a State hospital having been duly admitted to the hospital pursuant to the provisions of law. No committee of the person or property of the husband has ever been appointed. He is represented in this proceeding by a special guardian.

The petitioner offered the…