HERSHMAN-TCHEREPNIN v. TCHEREPNIN

No. 06-P-1677.

70 Mass. App. Ct. 218 (2007)

SUE-ELLEN HERSHMAN-TCHEREPNIN v. NICHOLAS TCHEREPNIN & others.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

September 24, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane C. Tillotson for the defendants.

John C. LaLiberte for the plaintiff.

Present: GELINAS, DOERFER, & KAFKER, JJ.


KAFKER, J.

Composer Ivan Tcherepnin3 drafted his last will and testament less than one month prior to his death. In it, he bequeathed one-fifth of the family home and "the right to remain there for as long as she desires" to his friend and recent bride, the petitioner, Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin. He also bequeathed one-fifth of the family home to each of his four children by an earlier marriage to Anne Tcherepnin.

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