In re the Estate of Schneider

In a probate proceeding in which the executrix petitioned pursuant to SCPA 1809 to determine the validity of a claim against the estate of Leon Schneider, the petitioner appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County (Riordan, S.), dated January 22, 2008, as denied that branch of the petition which was to invalidate a claim of the Nassau County Department of Social Services, and *843granted the petition only to the extent of determining that the estate is not obligated pay so much of that claim as would impinge on a specific bequest to…