06-04-2015 In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Robyn R. LEWIS, Deceased. James Robert Simmons, Respondent; Meredith M. Stewart et al., Appellants. Menter, Rudin & Trivelpiece, P.C., Syracuse (Julian B. Modesti and Teresa M. Bennett of counsel), for respondent. Chief Judge LIPPMAN. Menter, Rudin & Trivelpiece, P.C., Syracuse (Julian B. Modesti and Teresa M. Bennett of counsel), for respondent. OPINION OF THE COURT Chief Judge LIPPMAN. At the time of her death in March 2010, it appeared after a thorough
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No. 2008-02331. June 23, 2009. In a proceeding for leave to serve and file a late notice of election against the decedent's estate, Maureen Page, the designated beneficiary of the decedent's pension with the New York City Employees' Retirement System, appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of a decree of the Surrogate's Court, Orange County (Berry, S.), dated March 10, 2008, as, upon an order of the same court (Slobod, S.), dated December 26, 2007, granting the motion of the petitioner, Eileen
June 17, 1999 Appeal from an order of the Surrogate's Court of Tompkins County (Sherman, S.), entered February 4, 1998, which, inter alia, directed respondent to turn over certain funds to the estate. Albanese Mulvey (Robert C. Mulvey of counsel), Ithaca, for appellant. Lo Pinto, Schlather, Solomon Salk (James A. Salk of counsel), Ithaca, for respondent. Before: MIKOLL, J.P., MERCURE, CREW III, YESAWICH JR. AND SPAIN, JJ. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER MIKOLL, J.P. Decedent, a lifelong resident of Tompkins