MATTER OF SAAB


135 Misc.2d 397 (1987)

In the Matter of The Estate of Elizabeth L. Saab, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Bronx County.

April 27, 1987


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser (Robert J. Eichelburg of counsel), for coadministratrix. Michael M. Lippman for Public Administrator. Howard Holt for Attorney-General of the State of New York. Townsend, Rabinowitz, Pantaleoni & Valente for objectant. Jonathan G. Blattmachr, guardian ad litem for unknowns.


BERTRAM R. GELFAND, J.

The guardian ad litem has placed at issue the availability in this matter of relief under SCPA 2225 at this time. He contends that the 1985 amendment to SCPA 2225, reducing the period in which the statute becomes applicable from five years after death to three, can only be applied to estates of decedents who died subsequent to the amendment. This decedent is dead in excess of three years, but less than five years.

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