MATTER OF JORDAN


52 A.D.3d 328 (2008)

859 N.Y.S.2d 447

In the Matter of LISA JORDAN, Also Known as ERNA ELISABETH MATHIESSEN and Others, Deceased. FRIEDRICH J.G. AUFSCHLAGER et al., Appellants; ETHEL GRIFFIN, as Public Administrator of the County of New York, Respondent.

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

Decided June 12, 2008.


Respondent sought letters of administration after decedent died intestate. Petitioners cross-petitioned for letters to be issued to them on the ground that they were purportedly two of the seven maternal first cousins and sole potential distributees of the estate.

Letters were issued in June 2007 to respondent because the purported cousins were only from the maternal side of the decedent's family, and Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1001 (1) (f) (ii) requires...

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