Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in New York

contesting a will

does a person have to be left a specific amount or value to contest a will?


Asked on 8/25/08, 10:02 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Walter LeVine Walter D. LeVine, Esq.

Re: contesting a will

You need not be named in the Will to contest it, but have to have standing. For example, a child not named can contest, but someone not related to the decedent who has been verbally promised something and no proof of the promise cannot contest it.

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Answered on 8/25/08, 11:41 pm


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