<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Funny this has come up now- I have a client whose husband owned some undeveloped (and not very developable) real estate in Buffalo. It would cost my client more to open an ancillary probate in New York than the plots are worth. Additionally, it would be difficult and expensive to sell the lots, as they are not contiguous, and NY law requires an attorney to be involved in any closing of a sale. By the time my client paid for the probate, and for a lawyer to sell each lot separately…well, you get the idea.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tentative plan is to allow NY State to foreclose for back taxes (small amounts, but eventually the lots will be sold). Thoughts?<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 20, 2017, at 9:47 AM, Paul Neumiller <<a href="mailto:pneumiller@hotmail.com" class="">pneumiller@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">A client couldn’t even donate a piece of dirt in OK to charity (no one wanted the liability of taxes and having to mow the thing). We ended up giving the dirt to a neighbor who gladly accepted it for free. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a name="Paul_Neumiller" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><span id="cid:image001.jpg@01D2B9BB.16C66790"><image001.jpg></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com" class="">wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a> [<a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com" class="">mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Gerald Sprute<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, April 20, 2017 9:25 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RPPT listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com" class="">wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>>; RPPT listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com" class="">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[WSBAPT] Abandoned out of state property in Probate?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I have a probate that is ready to close with the exception of a patch of dirt in Texas that none of the heirs want (no ancillary probate proceedings have been initiated in Texas yet). The value is so low that even the property tax bill is viewed as a burden to the heirs, and there has been no offers to purchase on the market. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">If all the heirs disclaim the property, can it be abandoned by the Estate? Can the PR close the estate without transferring this property out of the decedent’s name? None of the heirs cares about what happens to the property. I want to make sure the PR doesn’t have some other liability out there to worry about. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Has anyone run across this before? Any advice would be appreciated! <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Jerry Sprute<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div id="Signature" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Law Office of Gerald A. Sprute<br class="">P.O. 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