This week’s entry discusses a recent decision from the Southern District of New York in which the plaintiff asserted he was the son of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, and sought to compel distributions from the late president’s testamentary trust. Especially relevant to the trusts and estates litigator is the discussion of the probate exception to federal diversity jurisdiction.
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June 2009
Amendments to Simultaneous Death Statute, EPTL 2-1.6
By Jaclene L. D'Agostino on
Posted in Construction of Wills and Trusts
This week’s post discusses amendments to EPTL 2-1.6, the statute pertaining to the disposition of assets in circumstances of apparent simultaneous deaths.
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