While the Court of Appeals has rendered two important trusts and estates decisions this summer, additional topics of interest have been addressed at the trial court level. Ilene Cooper discusses a few of these “hot topics” in this week’s blog entry.
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This week, Ilene S. Cooper explains a recent case in which the Suffolk County Surrogate’s Court analyzed whether a beneficiary’s interest in the decedent’s residence qualified as a life estate, notwithstanding the explicit use of the term in the decedent’s Will.
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This week’s entry discusses a recent decision rejecting an executor’s attempt to “sell” the decedent’s house to herself for the price of $10.
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