As August moves along, and the summer sadly draws to an end, this month’s column takes a different approach by addressing two uncontested matters of interest affecting trusts and estates practice, and a litigated issue addressed to the construction of a will.

Appellate Division Addresses Sale of Estate Property

Before the Appellate Division, Second Department, in Matter of Kahn, N.Y.L.J., June 7, 2019, at p. 25, was an appeal from an Order of the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County, which denied a petition by the administrator of the decedent’s estate to remove the restrictions on his letters of administration that prohibited him from selling real property owned by the decedent at death.