Matter of Martin

Order, Surrogate’s Court, New York County (Nora S. Anderson, S.), entered November 25, 2015, which granted petitioner’s motion for summary judgment, and admitted for probate decedent’s will dated May 6, 2011, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

It is proponent’s burden, in the first instance, to make a prima facie showing that decedent possessed testamentary capacity, i.e., that she understood the nature and extent of her property, was aware of the natural objects of her bounty, and understood that she was disposing of her property through the will (see Matter of Kumstar, 66 NY2d 691, 692…