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• New York Trusts & Estates Litigation | Estate Planning and Probate Lawyers | Farrell Fritz Law Firm

  New York Trusts & Estates Litigation is written by the Farrell Fritz Trusts and Estates Lawyers and offers updates on estate law

• The Court of Appeals Takes a Look at an Undue Influence Claim from a Non-Jury Trial | New York

  The COVID-19 pandemic has forced litigants to wrestle with the dilemma of waiting for a jury trial or moving forward more expeditiously by way of a bench trial.  Recently, the Appellate Division, Four...

• SURROGATE’S COURT PROVIDES GUIDANCE ON PROVING THE VALIDITY OF A REMOTELY WITNESSED WILL | New York

  From April 7, 2020 to June 25, 2021, New York Executive Order 202.14 authorized “the remote execution of wills” in New York State. Recently, in Matter of Holmgren, Queens County Surrogate Peter J. Kel...

• Death and Digital Content: Protecting Digital Assets After The Death Of A User | New York Trusts

  In 2016, the New York Legislature enacted a version of the Uniform Law Commission’s Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act in Article 13-A

• The Answer is Almost Always No | New York Trusts & Estates Litigation

  When clients ask whether they can “sue for legal fees,” the courts continue to reiterate that the answer is almost always no; that the American Rule still controls.  In our latest post, Frank Santoro ...

• The Remedy of Eviction in the Surrogate’s Court | New York Trusts & Estates Litigation

  When thinking of the Surrogate’s Court, jurisdiction over eviction proceedings does not normally come to mind. Yet, over the past 18 months, the Surrogates of New York and Bronx counties have found ca...