MATTER OF EDWARDS

2012-07966

121 A.D.3d 336 (2014)

991 N.Y.S.2d 431

2014 NY Slip Op 05873

In the Matter of DIANNE EDWARDS, Deceased. DONNA LARSEN, Respondent; DONNA DiRUSSO, Appellant, et al., Petitioner.

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

Decided August 20, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jaspan Schlesinger LLP, Garden City ( Mindy K. Smolevitz and Sally M. Donahue of counsel), for appellant.

Haley Weinblatt & Calcagni, LLP, Islandia ( Richard D. Haley of counsel), for respondent.

DICKERSON, J.P., LEVENTHAL and LOTT, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

HALL, J.

It is a well-established equitable principle that a wrongdoer should not benefit from his or her own wrongdoing. On this appeal, this Court is presented with the question of whether a person who unlawfully kills another should be permitted to inherit the victim's assets indirectly through the estate of the victim's daughter. Under the particular facts of this case, where there is a clear causal link between the wrongful conduct...

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