MATTER OF RICHICHI


38 A.D.3d 558 (2007)

832 N.Y.S.2d 57

In the Matter of the Estate of RUTH RICHICHI, Deceased. JOSEPH RICHICHI, Respondent; CARMELA ORTOLANO, Appellant.

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

Decided March 6, 2007.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

In July 1989, the decedent opened a joint bank account and a joint brokerage account with her daughter, Carmela Ortolano, using the decedent's own funds and funds the decedent received after her husband's death. In October 1989 the decedent executed a will which provided that the joint accounts she had established with her children had been created "solely for convenience," and that her entire estate, including the jointly...

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