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Estate of Manuel

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Sanctions
In an executor's suit against a will contestant, seeking an award of costs of proof in the amount of all of her legal fees incurred after the date of...

Estate of Stewart v. Comm'r. of Int'l. Rev.

Probate, Trusts & Estates, Tax Law
In an estate administrator's appeal from a judgment of the United States Tax Court holding that a 49% interest in a five-story New York house was...

Kuelbs v. Hill

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In an action alleging embezzlement of a trust's assets, the dismissal of the action is affirmed where: 1) the district court correctly determined that...

Day v. Apoliona

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action by native Hawaiians contending that the trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a Hawaii state agency that administered a portion of...

Weinkauf v. Florez

Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
In an administrator's complaint seeking to invalidate certain deeds to certain family members of the defendant, with whom the decedent had a fiduciary...

Mack v. Kuckenmeister

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Family Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In an action in federal court seeking to interplead $500,000 in retirement pension funds formerly owned by a murder victim, the dismissal of the...

Litwin v. Estate of Robert Formela

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In plaintiff's personal injury action arising from an automobile accident, judgment of dismissal following the sustaining of a demurrer by...

Quick v. Pearson

Probate, Trusts & Estates, Civil Procedure
In plaintiff's suit for breach of trust, alleging that his claim was within the three-year statute of limitations for actions by a beneficiary against...

In re: Hyde

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In an action involving the intermediate accountings of two trusts, the appellate division's attorney fee order is modified where Surrogate's Court...

Steinman v. Malamed

Contracts, Attorney's Fees, Evidence, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Securities Law
In defendant's motion to enforce a prepayment provision under a settlement agreement arising from plaintiffs' suit for breach of fiduciary duty and...