MATTER OF KNOWLES


40 Misc.2d 144 (1963)

In the Matter of The Estate of Percy H. Knowles, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Nassau County.

September 25, 1963


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Paul Fishman and Raphael & Dorman for Alan H. Knowles, individually and as coexecutor. Sullivan & Thorp for Franklin National Bank as coexecutor. Cullen & Dykman (Harold A. Meriam of counsel), for Church Charity Foundation of Long Island, respondent. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Kenneth D. Shearer of counsel), for ultimate and indefinite charitable beneficiaries. Pressinger, Wigg & Goodstein (Irving Glaser of counsel), for Chapin Home for the Aged and Infirm, respondent. Luria, Edelman & Berger for Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer.


JOHN D. BENNETT, S.

This is a motion to reapportion the estate taxes charged to the charitable remaindermen of the residuary trust. Since there is an excess gift to charity which will eventually inure to the benefit of an individual remainderman, the charities urge that the individual's interest in the remainder should bear the brunt of the taxes attributable to the life estate.

While the court indicated...

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