The objectants challenge the funding of their mother's residuary trust on the ground that EPTL 2-1.9 precluded the decedent's widow from sharing in the appreciation of the decedent's estate, and urge that the release their mother executed is not binding upon them because her interests were in conflict with their own. The Surrogate properly rejected both contentions. EPTL 2-1.9 does not prohibit the distribution of the appreciation of a legacy that is not strictly pecuniary...
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