In Re the Estate of Constant

Order, Surrogate’s Court, Bronx County (Nelida MalaveGonzalez, S.), entered on or about June 27, 2014, which denied petitioner’s motion to expand discovery beyond the time permitted under 22 NYCRR 207.27, to permit depositions of the purported attorney draftsman and two attesting witnesses of an alleged 2006 will, to explain decedent’s state of mind and reasons for executing the 2010 will as decedent approached 100 years old, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying petitioner’s motion to expand the scope of discovery, as no special…