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MATTER OF LAINEZ

79 A.D.2d 78 (1981)

In the Matter of The Estate of Mary Lainez, Deceased. Jeannette Gahrman, as Administratrix of The Estate of Mary Lainez, Deceased, et al., Appellants; Department of Social Services of the City of New York, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

February 17, 1981

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Bruce Byrne, for Jeannette Gahrman, as administratrix, appellant.

Duer & Taylor (Frank C. McLaughlin, Jr., of counsel), for United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, appellant.

Allen G. Schwartz, Corporation Counsel (Edward F. X. Hart and Ronald E. Sternberg of counsel), for respondent.

HOPKINS, J. P., COHALAN and WEINSTEIN, JJ., concur.

LAZER, J.

The decedent, a 17-year-old woman, was killed by her husband who then committed suicide, thus leaving her parents as her only survivors. Since the decedent's father subsequently was disqualified as a distributee by a Special Referee pursuant to EPTL 4-1.4 for having abandoned and refused to support the decedent as an infant, her mother, Jeannette Gahrman, became the sole remaining distributee and was...

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