BAIER v. BAIER

Index No. 655957/16. Appeal No. 13011. Case No. 2020-00017.

191 A.D.3d 401 (2021)

137 N.Y.S.3d 694

2021 NY Slip Op 00519

Danny David Czarninski Baier, Appellant, v. Johny Jacobo Czarninski Baier, Respondent, et al., Defendant.

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

Decided February 2, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York ( Todd Harrison of counsel), for appellant.

Mintz & Gold LLP, New York ( Scott Klein of counsel), and Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE ( Thomas W. Briggs , of the bar of the State of Delaware, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for respondent.

Concur—Renwick, J.P., Webber, González, Scarpulla, JJ.


Plaintiff, a domiciliary of Ecuador, seeks to obtain his one-third interest in the worldwide assets of his deceased parents, who were also domiciliaries of Ecuador. He contends that defendants, his siblings, who were domiciliaries of Ecuador and Israel, acted together to deprive him of his rightful inheritance.

The court correctly found that it lacked jurisdiction over the non-New York assets. Plaintiff contends that a...

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