A man serving up to 15 years in state prison for second-degree manslaughter in the scalding deaths of his son and stepson in 2005 may not share in the settlements made between the boys’ estates, their landlord and Westchester County, a judge decided.
Acting Westchester County Surrogate David Everett ruled that David Maldonado Sr. is prohibited from inheriting from the estate of his dead son David Maldonado Jr. under a line of cases extending back to the 1889 Court of Appeals decision in Riggs v. Palmer, 115 NY 506.
