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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