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MATTER OF ABELS

2007-515/A.

44 Misc.3d 485 (2014)

988 N.Y.S.2d 458

2014 NY Slip Op 24172

In the Matter of RICHARD M. COPLAND, Petitioner, as Executor of LENORE LEWIS ABELS, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Westchester County.

Decided June 27, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steinberg & Cavaliere LLP and Stern Keiser & Panken LLP, White Plains, for Richard Copland, petitioner.

McCullough Goldberger & Staudt, LLP, White Plains, for Michael Maino, co-executor.

Rosentrach & Beaver, Mamaroneck, and Sall & Geist, White Plains, for Eugenia Chodnicka, beneficiary.

Rabinowitz Boudin Standard Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., New York City, for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, charitable beneficiary.

Gordon Herlands Randolph & Cox, LLP, New York City, for Bide-A-Wee Home Association, charitable beneficiary.

Edward J. Walsh, Jr., Rockville Centre, for Doris Day Animal League, charitable beneficiary.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York City (Lisa Barbieri of counsel), for ultimate charitable beneficiaries.

Patricia Collins, Madison, Connecticut, trustee pro se.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ANTHONY A. SCARPING, S.

In this miscellaneous proceeding, Richard M. Copland (Copland), as co-executor of the estate of Lenore Lewis Abels (the decedent), petitions the court for a decree in accordance with EPTL 7-8.1 (d) reducing the amount of money to be transferred from the estate to the trustees of a testamentary pet trust established under the decedent's will. Issue has been joined, and a stipulation was entered into between the...

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