Sharrow v. Sheridan

The plaintiff commenced this action against his mother and sister, alleging that the sister used duress and undue influence to cause their elderly and ailing mother to transfer her assets to the sister, thereby frustrating the mother’s expressed intent to devise her assets approximately equally between her two children. The plaintiff alleged that he was acting as his mother’s “son, her attorney-in-fact, and a 50% potential heir of [her] Estate” and that the mother had executed a power of attorney naming him as her attorney-in-fact. He sought to set aside the deeds transferring his mother’s…