MATTER OF RIGGS


109 Misc.2d 644 (1981)

In the Matter of The Estate of Helen M. Riggs, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, New York County.

April 24, 1981


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bloom & Amrod (John B. Amrod and Harold Bakerman of counsel), for objectants. Joseph T. Arenson, Waldemar Dittmar and Elias Karban for Public Administrator of New York County. Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Allan Kirstein of counsel), for ultimate charitable beneficiaries. David Bromberg, guardian ad litem for unknown distributees.


MILLARD L. MIDONICK, J.

In this accounting proceeding a hearing was held before a Law Assistant-Referee. Objectants claim to be nieces and nephews of Leon Corey Riggs, a stepfather of decedent who allegedly adopted her. Previously, one objectant had sought an advance payment of a distributive share and had submitted evidence to establish an adoption, but no adoption record was presented. This court found that the petitioner therein had not sustained his...

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