In Re the Estate of Warren

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Greene County (Wilhelm, S.), entered December 31, 2014, which, among other things, partially granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to SCPA 1420, to construe decedent’s last will and testament.

Florence M. Warren (hereinafter decedent) married Leonard Warren (hereinafter Warren) in 1950, and the couple raised the eight children resulting from that union, as well as Warren’s two children from a prior marriage. Petitioner and his sister were decedent’s stepchildren and, while their upbringing was identical to that of their half…