Surrogate AndersonESTATE OF MARGARET GREENE, Deceased (15-2677/B) — The compromise of causes of action for decedent’s wrongful death and conscious pain and suffering was approved and attorney’s fees and disbursements were fixed and determined, by order of the Supreme Court, New York County (“Compromise Order”). That court also directed the payment of funeral expenses, expert witness fees, and the amount owed to Seward Park Housing Corporation.The administrator’s petition for leave to distribute the net settlement proceeds for the cause of action for decedent’s wrongful death and conscious pain and suffering is granted. The proceeds are allocated 100 percent to the cause of action for conscious pain and suffering. The administrator has waived his right to receive commissions. The administrator is authorized to pay $1,919.77 to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, in full payment of its lien.In addition, the administrator is authorized to pay $6,470.75 to Cuddy & Feder LLP, for their services in connection with securing a waiver of the estate’s significant Medicaid/Public Assistance lien (see Matter of Anastasio, NYLJ, July 9, 2010, at 39, col 1 [Sur Ct, NY County]; Matter of Cook, NYLJ, Aug. 9, 2010 at 18, col 5 [Sur Ct, NY County]), and to reimburse Gerald P. Gross, P.C., in the amount of $1,205, for reimbursement of the filing fees incurred in this proceeding.The balance of the settlement proceeds shall be distributed to the supplemental needs trust established for the benefit of petitioner, decedent’s son and sole distributee.The account is settled, and the decree is signed.Dated: March 8, 2019
ESTATE OF RALPH WYNN, A/K/A RALPH M. WYNN, Deceased (13-4132/J/K) — At a conference with the court in this proceeding for removal of the co-trustees of a testamentary charitable trust and appointment of a successor trustee, the court pointed out to the parties that jurisdiction remained-incomplete in the absence of notice to certain necessary parties. In view of the pendency of an appeal from the decree that had appointed the co-trustees, the outcome of which appeal could render the removal issue moot, the parties agreed that jurisdiction would be completed in the removal proceeding only if and when the appeal was unsuccessful, in which event the present proceeding would be placed on a calendar pursuant to a supplemental citation.Proceed accordingly.Dated: March 8, 2019
