In their Trusts and Estates Law column, Ruskin Moscou Faltischek's C. Raymond Radigan and Jennifer F. Hillman write that although the Surrogate's Court Procedure Act seeks to statutorily define the ...
Peter C. Valente, a member of Blank Rome, and Barbara L. MacGrady, an associate with the firm, discuss the Surrogate's Court Procedure Act as it relates to service of process on nondomiciliaries and ...
Ashwani Prabhakar writes: While most practitioners rarely worry about the contingency fee arrangements they have with their clients, Surrogate's Court practitioners should be aware of the potential ...
New York law generally requires that, to have a will admitted to probate, a party offering the will for probate must file the original instrument with the Surrogate’s Court (Margaret V. Turano, ...
Do New York’s Surrogate’s Courts have jurisdiction to compel an accounting related to a non-party limited liability company in which the decedent’s estate has only a minority interest? Do Surrogate’s ...
New York's top administrative judge hailed Albany County Surrogate Deborah S. Kearns' "cross-functional experience and deep knowledge of surrogate’s court." She succeeds a Manhattan surrogate in the ...
When is the executor nominated by the decedent in a will deemed unfit to serve as executor? Rarely – but a recent decision in Surrogates Court set forth the standard and deemed the nominated executor ...
Pope Francis made headlines on Jan. 8, 2024, when he called for a global surrogacy ban, stating, “I deem deplorable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation ...