MATTER OF DUZHANSKY

File No. 1203/15. 2016-10910.

153 A.D.3d 819 (2017)

57 N.Y.S.3d 905

2017 NY Slip Op 06270

In the Matter of LEONID V. DUZHANSKY, Also Known as LEONID DUZHANSKY, Deceased. ELEANOR GUTT, Respondent; REGINA DUZHANSKJA, Appellant.

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

Decided August 23, 2017.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The applicable Uniform Rules for the Surrogate's Court confines discovery to "a three-year period prior to the date of the propounded instrument and two years thereafter, or to the date of [the] decedent's death, whichever is the shorter period," except upon "the showing of special circumstances" (22 NYCRR 207.27). The determination of whether to expand the time period set forth in that rule...

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