MATTER OF BARUCH


205 Misc. 1122 (1954)

In the Matter of The Estate of Herman B. Baruch, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Suffolk County.

August 4, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baer, Marks, Friedman, Berliner & Klein and Bouvier & Beale for Robert P. Baruch and another, as executors of Herman B. Baruch, deceased, petitioners.

Fowler & Kendrick for Anna M. Baruch, respondent.

Richard W. Hawkins, special guardian.


HAZLETON, S.

In this proceeding petitioners seek a determination that the respondent, surviving spouse of decedent, has no right of election to take against the will by reason of her execution of an antenuptial agreement. The widow wishes to avoid the antenuptial agreement by supplanting it with a notice of election, upon the grounds that she was taken advantage of and duped into signing away her rights. To be specific, the lady alleges that at the time...

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