A probate court has tossed a will that bequeathed about $5 million to the now-disbarred lawyer who drafted it on behalf of her deceased "paramour." Michele Okin, named the chief beneficiary in Pasquale Coviello's will, had been the estate lawyer for Coviello and his wife before she began an affair with Coviello. In a decision issued Tuesday, a New York surrogate ordered the bequests to Okin to be expunged "lest she be permitted to profit by her fraud and undue influence, or take advantage of her own wrong."
March 30, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A New York probate court has thrown out a will that bequeathed almost $5 million to the lawyer who drafted it on behalf of her deceased “paramour.”
Michele Okin, a disbarred estate lawyer, was named the chief beneficiary in the January 2004 will of Pasquale Coviello, a local real estate developer who died in May 2004. Okin, 46, had been the estate lawyer for Coviello and his wife before she began an affair with Coviello in December 2002.
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