Legal Opinion

In re the Estate of Carey

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided February 7, 1997PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—Order modified in the exercise of *782discretion and as modified affirmed with costs to petitioner and judgment ordered imposing sanction in accordance with the following Memorandum: In this proceeding, petitioner seeks probate of a will executed in 1986 and a codicil executed in 1995. In the 1986 will, decedent named her then attorney, Dante M. Scaccia, as executor of her estate. In the 1995 codicil, decedent named petitioner, her daughter, as executrix and expressed the desire that the executrix employ the law firm of Mackenzie Smith Lewis Michell & Hughes, L. L. P., as attorneys for the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. In re the Estate of LachmanNew York Surrogate's Court · 1979
  2. In re the Estate of PeckolickNew York Surrogate's Court · 1996
  3. In re the Estate of HatzistefanouNew York Surrogate's Court · 1974
  4. In re the Estate of BehrendtNew York Surrogate's Court · 1981
  5. In re the Estate of GalassoNew York Surrogate's Court · 1977

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. In re LermanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997

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