In re the Estate of Sheppard

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Sullivan County (LaBuda, S.), entered April 5, 2013, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to SCPA 2107, to approve the sale of certain real property belonging to decedent’s estate.

Gerald B. Sheppard (hereinafter decedent) died intestate in 2006 leaving 10 siblings who are his distributees. One sibling was appointed administrator but was removed in 2011, and petitioner — the Sullivan County Treasurer — was thereafter named administrator.1 As relevant here, the estate includes 251 acres of property comprised of seven…