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Instructions In Will Re: Payment of Estate Taxes Properly Followed

The Second Department determined the instruction in the will that estate taxes be paid out of the residuary estate was properly followed:

All estate tax payments must be equitably apportioned among recipients of estate assets “unless otherwise provided in the will or non-testamentary instrument” (EPTL 2-1.8[c]), and such a contrary direction must be clear and unambiguous … . Although there is a strong policy favoring apportionment …, that policy gives way where the clear and unambiguous wishes of the testator direct otherwise … . Analysis begins with the general rules of will construction which provide that a court is to determine and effectuate the intent of the testator and that in doing so, it must construe his or her words according to their ordinary and natural meaning … .

Here, the second paragraph of the decedent’s will directs that all estate taxes, “in respect to any property required to be included in my gross estate for estate tax or like purposes by any such government, whether the property passes under this Will or otherwise, without contribution by any recipient of any such property,” were to be paid out of the residuary estate. The words clearly and unambiguously reflect the decedent’s intent that his preresiduary and nontestamentary beneficiaries … are to take their property without liability for the payment of any estate taxes, regardless of whether the taxes are imposed on property and assets passing under the will or outside of the will … . Matter of Priedits, 2015 NY Slip Op 07508, 2nd Dept 10-14-15

 

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