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IN THE MATTER OF STEINER

12 A.D.3d 682 (2004)

786 N.Y.S.2d 83

In the Matter of FRED STEINER, Deceased. EVELYN SMITH-STEINER, Appellant; SCOTT STANISLAW et al., Respondents.

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

November 29, 2004.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The proponent's contention that the Surrogate's Court erred, in effect, by determining that she and the decedent did not have a valid common-law marriage in Florida is without merit. Although abolished in New York, "a common-law marriage contracted in a sister State will be recognized as valid here if it is valid where contracted" (Matter of Mott v Duncan Petroleum Trans., 51 N.Y.2d 289

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