Trusts and Estates

A SAMPLING OF “TRUSTS AND ESTATES” ISSUES ADDRESSED IN THE NEW YORK APPELLATE DIGEST SEARCHABLE DATABASE

TRUSTS AND ESTATES issues in this database include (but are far from limited to):

Executors (criteria for removal, fiduciary duty, etc.);

Real Property (cotenant’s interest vest upon death, etc.);

Administrators (standing to appoint, etc.);

IRA (beneficiaries, etc.);

Parties (lawsuits, death of parties, etc.);

Promissory Estoppel;

Constructive Trust;

Fiduciary Duty;

Undue Influence;

Riggs Doctrine:

Testamentary Capacity;

Life Support;

Vegetative State;

Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act (guardians, etc.);

Representatives (lawsuits involving estates, etc.);

Disappearance;

Wrongful Death;

Lost Will;

Destroyed Will;

Execution (wills, etc.);

Captions (change upon death, etc.);

Statute of Limitations (post-death toll, etc.);

Probate;

Ancillary Proceedings;

Domiciliaries;

Letters of Administration;

Nonancillary Letters;

Presumption of Revocation;

Spousal Election;

Disinterment;

Sepulcher, Right of;

Trusts;

Final Accounting;

Judicial Settlement;

Attorney’s Fees;

Releases;

Beneficiaries;

Limited Liability Companies (death of member, etc.)

Informal Accounting;

Indenture Trustee;

Charitable Gifts;

Tenants by the Entirety;

Revocation;

Renunciation;

Gifts;

Workers’ Compensation Trust;

Will Construction;

Life Estates;

Equitable Estoppel;

Medicaid;

Fiduciary Exception;

Constructive Fraud;

Letters Testamentary;

Attestation Clause;

Ademption;

Equitable Deviation;

Estates, Powers and Trusts Law (EPTL);

Remainder Interests;

Securities, Transfer on Death;

Joint Bank Accounts;

Survivorship;

Banking Law;

Privity;

Contingent Remainder;

Conversion.