Opinion
No. 573.
March 22, 2007.
Order, Surrogate's Court, New York County (Renee Roth, S.), entered September 15, 2006, which granted respondent trustee's motion to dismiss appellants' petition to remove him, and denied appellants' motion to renew a prior order directing appellants to turn over to the trustee the decedent's interest in certain funds of appellant partnership, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Feder, Kaszovitz, Isaacson, Weber, Skala, Bass Rhine LLP, New York (Ezio Scaldaferri of counsel), for appellants.
Heller, Horowitz Feit, P.C., New York (Martin Stein of counsel), for respondent.
Before: Tom, J.P., Andrias, Sullivan, Williams and Gonzalez, JJ.
Appellants' claim that the turnover proceeding was jurisdictionally defective because unpaid creditors of the estate were not made parties thereto is improperly raised for the first time on appeal, and we decline to consider it. In any event, appellants' previous consent to the turnover of partnership funds, albeit on condition that it be subject to provisions of the partnership agreement, judicially estops them from challenging the turnover now. Nor do appellants show that the trustee's appointment was in violation of the trust instrument or that he is unfit to serve. We have considered and rejected appellants' other arguments.