LAMBERT, WAYNE C., MTR. OF

Opinion

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

81 CA 12-01423 PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., PERADOTTO, LINDLEY, SCONIERS, AND VALENTINO, JJ.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GLORIA H. LAMBERT, DECEASED. --------------------------------------------------- ORDER WAYNE C. LAMBERT, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT;

JOHN R. LAMBERT, RESPONDENT-PETITIONER-APPELLANT.

THE HILPERT LAW OFFICES, CROTON-ON-HUDSON (STEVEN FELSENFELD OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT-PETITIONER-APPELLANT.

MARIANNE BROWN, LIVERPOOL, D.J. & J.A. CIRANDO, ESQS., SYRACUSE (JOHN A. CIRANDO OF COUNSEL), FOR PETITIONER-RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court, Oswego County (John J. Elliott, S.), entered September 15, 2011. The order, inter alia, denied the motion of respondent-petitioner to vacate a decree of probate, granted the petition of petitioner-respondent for appointment as successor executor and denied the cross petition of respondent- petitioner for probate.

It is hereby ORDERED that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs for reasons stated in the decision by the Surrogate.

Entered: February 1, 2013 Frances E. Cafarell Clerk of the Court