Opinion
March 31, 1994
Appeal from the Surrogate's Court, New York County (Eve Preminger, S.).
Even if the preliminary executrix had presented her purportedly newly discovered evidence at the revocation hearing, the outcome would not have been different since, in addition to the alleged acts of improvidence that she sought to rebut by such evidence (see, 173 A.D.2d 336, appeal dismissed 78 N.Y.2d 990, lv denied 79 N.Y.2d 751), the order of removal was premised upon numerous other aspects of her conduct. Among these were petitioner's failure to timely file estate taxes, her failure to file any income tax returns commencing in 1988 for decedent's companies, her refusal to amend decedent's 1986 income tax returns in order to obtain a substantial loss carry back refund, her challenge to the disposition of decedent's Hong Kong pension monies thereby potentially subjecting the estate to a greater tax liability, her failure to marshall and administer estate assets in not submitting an estate asset list to allow ancillary probate proceedings to commence in Hong Kong, her failure to report on the status of such proceedings, her attempt to become sole trustee of the pension fund in order to distribute the assets to herself, and her intransigence in refusing to sign a document resolving numerous issues, which petitioner herself had voluntarily drafted, after the other parties indicated their agreement.
We have considered petitioner's contentions with regard to the format of the accounting and find them to be without merit.
Concur — Carro, J.P., Rosenberger, Ross, Asch and Tom, JJ.