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Will Provisions Can Not Be “Re-Written” by Court Even If Intestacy Results

In determining Surrogate’s Court properly determined mortgages secured by notes represented personal property and not “interests in real property” within the meaning of the will, the Second Department wrote:

Here, as the Surrogate’s Court properly recognized, notes secured by mortgages are generally construed to be personal property…, and there is nothing in the language of the decedent’s will that manifests an intent to include the subject notes within the clause devising his “interests in real property” to the petitioner. The construction suggested by the petitioner cannot be accepted since the court should not rewrite a will or supply an omission not necessarily implied by the language used, even though intestacy with respect to a particular asset results … . Matter of Cincotta, 2013 NY Slip Op 03671, 2nd Dept, 5-22-13

 

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