In Re the Estate of Yen

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Tompkins County (Cassidy, S.), entered June 3, 2014, which granted respondent’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the petition.

Following the death of decedent in October 2013, petitioner, who was decedent’s granddaughter, commenced this proceeding seeking probate of a 2012 will that named her as the executor and bequeathed all of decedent’s property to her. Respondent — who is decedent’s son and petitioner’s father — filed objections to the probate of the will alleging that it was not duly executed, among other things, and thereafter moved…