Order affirmed, with $50 costs and disbursements.
Although the Surrogate's Court does not generally have jurisdiction over inter vivos trusts, the trust in question is so intimately connected with the estate of Jacob Cohen that the dispute "affects the administration" of the estate (see CPLR 325, subd [e]). The res consists of fractional interests in businesses which the decedent owned in part at the time of his death. The estate's interests in those...
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