MATTER OF ARMATO

File No. 1908/15. 2018-08833.

199 A.D.3d 999 (2021)

159 N.Y.S.3d 66

2021 NY Slip Op 06614

In the Matter of Ben N. Armato, Deceased. Maria Hardenburg, Respondent; Catherine Ross, Appellant.

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

Decided November 24, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine Ross, White Plains, NY, appellant pro se.

Mitchell Pollack & Associates, PLLC, Tarrytown, NY ( Mitchell B. Pollack and Eileen M. Burger of counsel), for respondent.

Chambers, J.P., Miller, Iannacci and Ford, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

On May 12, 2011, Ben N. Armato (hereinafter the decedent) executed a last will and testament before Joseph J. Staropoli, the attorney who drafted the will and supervised the will's execution, and Maria T. Chiodi, a paralegal. The will excluded the objectant, Catherine Ross, one of the decedent's three daughters. Following the decedent's death, the petitioner, Maria A. Hardenburg...

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