MATTER OF ESTATE OF HALPERN

File No. 1469, 2719/06

76 A.D.3d 429 (2010)

906 N.Y.S.2d 253

In the Matter of the Estate of SEYMOUR HALPERN, Deceased. ADRIENNE HALPERN et al., Respondents; ELIZABETH HALPERN, Objectant-Appellant.

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

Decided August 17, 2010.


The decedent, Seymour Halpern, a physician, married his first wife Anafred in 1953. On September 12, 1958, he purportedly executed a document that petitioners, his daughters, seek to probate as his will. Anafred died in 1981, and in 1988, the decedent married his second wife Elizabeth (the objectant). On June 7, 2006, Seymour died, leaving an estate valued at approximately $28 million. At the time of his death, his family believed...

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