In re the Estate of Baldo

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Otsego County (Kepner, Jr., S.), entered October 8, 1993, which denied petitioner’s motion for summary judgment.

Patsy P. Baldo (hereinafter decedent) and respondent were married in 1979, a second marriage for each of them. At the time of their marriage decedent was retired from the United States Postal Service and receiving a disability pension as well as Social Security retirement. Respondent was working a 40-*849hour week at a manufacturing facility. In early 1990, after decedent was diagnosed as having Alzheimer’s disease, respondent took a…