Matter of Coopersmith, 2006-09018.
Decision Date | 13 February 2008 |
Docket Number | 2006-09018.,2006-10897. |
Citation | 852 N.Y.S.2d 247,48 A.D.3d 562,2008 NY Slip Op 01340 |
Parties | In the Matter of the Estate of GLADYS COOPERSMITH, Deceased. ARTHUR ANDERMAN et al., Respondents; JOAN LAVIN, Appellant. |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Ordered that one bill of costs is awarded to the petitioners, payable by the appellant.
On appeal from the decree admitting the will to probate, the objectant, in effect, seeks review of so much of an order dated April 7, 2006 as denied a branch of her discovery motion. As the objectant has failed to include in the appellate record any of the supporting or opposing papers that were submitted on the discovery motion, meaningful appellate review of this order is not possible, and we do not reach this contention (see CPLR 5526; Levi v Levi, 46 AD3d 519 [2007]; Salem v Mott, 43 AD3d 397 [2007]).
The petitioners, in support of their motion for summary judgment dismissing the objections, established, prima facie, that the will was not the product of undue influence (see Matter of Walther, 6 NY2d 49, 55 [1959]). The petitioner Anderman, who was the attorney-draftsman and was named as one of three executors and as one of three trustees of a charitable trust, was not a beneficiary under the will, and thus, the inference or presumption of undue influence does not apply (see Matter of Weinstock, 40 NY2d 1, 6 n [1995]; see also Matter of Thompson, 121 App Div 470, 472 [1907]; cf. Matter of Henderson, 80 NY2d 388, 392 [1992]).
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