Legal Opinion
In re Forti
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 10, 2014Published
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Surrogate’s Court, New York County (Nora S. Anderson, S.), entered on or about February 7, 2013, which, to the extent appealed from, granted petitioner’s petition for letters of administration, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court had jurisdiction pursuant to SCPA 206 (1) and *479properly granted letters of administration to petitioner, pursuant to SCPA 2103, given the evidence that property of the nondomiciliary decedent may have been left in New York (see Matter of Obregon, 230 AD2d 47, 52 [1st Dept 1997], affd 91 NY2d 591 [1998]). This is so, even if the property was brought…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Matter of ObregonNew York Court of Appeals · 1998
- In re the Estate ObregonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
- In re the Estate of De CamillisNew York Surrogate's Court · 1971
- In re the Estate of NevaiNew York Surrogate's Court · 2005
- In re the Estate of NevaiAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006