In re the Estate of Huyot

—In a proceeding, inter alia, to assert a right of election pursuant to EPTL 5-1.1-A, the petitioner appeals from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County (Braatz, S.), dated June 7, 1996, which, inter alia, dismissed so much of the petition as was to elect against the will of Robert Huyot.

Ordered that the decree is affirmed, with costs payable by the appellant to the respondents Marilese Flusser, Suzanne Matthau, and Nicole Stevenson.

The Surrogate properly concluded that there is a distinction between “marriage” and “concubinage” under French law that is “more than mere language”.…