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EVEN THOUGH THE PROCEEDS OF A TRUST HAD BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO DECEDENT BEFORE HIS DEATH, THERE WAS A QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER DECEDENT RETAINED THE PROCEEDS AT THE TIME OF DEATH; IF SO, PURSUANT TO THE WILL, THE BEQUEST DID NOT LAPSE AND THE PROCEEDS WOULD BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE NAMED BENEFICIARIES (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Surrogate’s Court, determined there was a question of fact whether the decedent possessed the proceeds of a trust at the time of his death. If so, pursuant to the will, those proceeds would pass to the named beneficiaries:

“A specific disposition is a disposition of a specified or identified item of the testator’s property” (EPTL 1-2.17). “[U]nless the subject of a specific legacy exists, unchanged in substance, at the date of the will, there results an ademption, complete or partial according to the facts” … . A specific bequest fails if the article specifically bequeathed has been given away, lost or destroyed during the testator’s lifetime … . “A conveyance, settlement or other act of a testator by which an estate in his property, previously disposed of by will, is altered but not wholly divested does not revoke such disposition, but the estate in the property that remains in the testator passes to the beneficiaries pursuant to the disposition. However, any such conveyance, settlement or other act of the testator which is wholly inconsistent with such previous testamentary disposition revokes it” (EPTL 3-4.3).

Here, the subject bequest to the objectants, namely, the net proceeds received by the decedent under the trust, was a specific disposition … , subject to whole or partial ademption … . However, questions of fact exist, inter alia, as to whether at the time of his death the decedent retained the property distributed to him upon the termination of the trust, such that it passes to the objectants pursuant to Paragraph THIRD of the will. Matter of Johnson, 2022 NY Slip Op 00425, Second Dept 1-26-22

 

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