Matter of Abbate, deceased
Motion No: 2017-05608
Slip Opinion No: 2017 NY Slip Op 77962(U)
Decided on June 23, 2017
Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M233461

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L. PRISCILLA HALL, J.P.

SHERI S. ROMAN

JEFFREY A. COHEN

BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2017-05608

In the Matter of Samuel Abbate, also

known as Samuel S. Abbate, deceased.

Ivan Valic, petitioner-appellant;

Sara L. Keating, et al., respondents.

(File No. 273/14)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant, inter alia, to direct the Public Administrator of Richmond County to retain the subject estate proceeds and make no distribution of the proceeds, pending hearing and determination of an appeal from an order of the Surrogate's Court, Richmond County, dated April 10, 2017, and for a preference in the calendaring of the appeal.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is denied.

HALL, J.P., ROMAN, COHEN and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court