MATTER OF LAUER


3 Misc.3d 219 (2004)

771 N.Y.S.2d 878

In the Matter of the Estate of AUGUST LAUER, Also Known as AUGUSTE LAUER, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Dutchess County.

February 4, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan B. Rappleyea, Jr., for estate.

Corbally, Gartland & Rappleyea, LLP, Poughkeepsie (Max D. Shemtob of counsel), for Department of Veterans Affairs.

Kathryn S. Lazar, Hopewell Junction, guardian ad litem.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, New York City (Howard Holt of counsel), for ultimate charitable beneficiaries.


OPINION OF THE COURT

JAMES D. PAGONES, J.

A petition has been filed in this court for the probate of decedent's last will and testament dated May 24, 1988. The decedent divided his estate among the Veterans Administration, Carpenter Memorial United Methodist Church, Stanford Grange No. 808, the American Red Cross, Disabled American Veterans and Louis and Mattie Kirven. The Department of Veterans Affairs appeared in this proceeding and apparently noticed...

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