In re the Estate of Shapiro

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Sullivan County (McGuire, S.), entered January 10, 2012, which, among other things, denied respondent’s motion to dismiss the probate petition.

Decedent’s two children have been involved in extensive litigation over her reportedly modest estate since her death in April 2008. A document purporting to be her 1994 will was propounded for probate in August 2008 by petitioner, her son, who was named executor and sole beneficiary. Respondent, decedent’s daughter, who allegedly had been estranged from decedent for many years and received nothing under…