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Featured Authors
Linda B. Hirschson
Linda B. Hirschson is partner at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, NY. Ms. Hirschson focuses her practice on all aspects of estate planning and administration and is a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC).
Hon. James D. Pagones
Hon. James D. Pagones is the Surrogate of Dutchess County.
Hon. Eugene E. Peckham
Hon. Eugene E. Peckham is a partner at Levene Gouldin & Thompson, LLP, Binghamton, NY, and retired Broome County Surrogate.
Hon. C. Raymond Radigan
Hon. C. Raymond Radigan, retired Nassau County surrogate, serves as counsel to the Trusts & Estates Department of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C., Uniondale, New York, and chair of the firm's Mediation Solutions Group. His practice focuses on estate and trust litigation, estate administration, and estate planning.
Joshua S. Rubenstein
Joshua S. Rubenstein is Managing Partner of the Trusts & Estates Department at Katten, Muchin Rosenman LLP, New York, NY. Mr. Rubenstein handles a wide variety of private client matters on a local, national, and international level, including personal and estate planning, the administration of estates and trusts, and contested Surrogate’s Court and tax proceedings for high net worth individuals, professionals, entrepreneurs, artists and others with unique intellectual property interests, and is a frequent lecturer and author on these topics.
Table of contents
Each issue covers different areas of estates law, depending on trending issues. As an example, the following is covered in the February 2021 issue:
Article: The New NY Statutory Power of Attorney
By: Linda B. Hirschson and Marc Selden, Greenberg Traurig, New York, NY
Recent Decisions
Admissibility of Documents in Support of Summary Judgment Motion
Adult Adoption Approved Without Consent of Adoptee
Application of Principal to Income Beneficiary (EPTL 7-1.6) Denied
Appointment of SCPA Article 17-A Guardian Found Not Warranted
Attorneys’ Fees: No Award for Future Services
Birth Father’s Consent to Adoption Found Not Required
Birth Mother’s Consent to Adoption of Child Unnecessary
Codicil as Writing to Take Promise out of Statute of Limitations
Contested Probate: Summary Judgment
CPLR 4401 Motion to Dismiss SCPA 2103 Proceeding Properly Granted
Creation of SNT Approved, Subject to Modification
Creditors’ Claims Dismissed
Cross Motion that Violated Filing Injunction Properly Denied
Dismissal of Probate Proceeding for Failure to Prosecute
Fiduciary of Deceased Fiduciary
Imposition of Constructive Trust Properly Denied
Inconsistency Between Decision and Judgment Entered on the Decision
Lost Will Proceeding
Nonmarital Child Establishes Right to Inherit from Father’s Estate Without Satisfying EPTL 4-1.2
North Carolina, Not New York, Proper Forum for Adult Guardianship Proceeding
Order for Substitution of Deceased Party Denied
Pre-Trial Discovery: Protective Order Properly Granted
Proceeding to Compel Accounting: Statute of Limitations
Relation Back Doctrine Inapplicable to Save Untimely Wrongful Death Action
Respondents’ Application to Vacate Default in Turnover Proceeding Not Granted
Sale of Estate Real Property; Ejection of Distributee
Spousal Abandonment
Standing to Sue on Behalf of Estate or Trust
Taking and Stating Account of Administrator
Trustee Removal Proceeding Directed to Mediation
Trustee’s Motion to Dismiss Objections Granted Despite Absence of Trust Records
Unfitness to Receive Letters Results in Dismissal of Petition
Video Deposition of Probate Objectant Ordered over Objection
Wrongful Death Claim Under Dram Shop Act Dismissed
