Case Title: Gaines v City of New York

Citation: 2017 NY Slip Op 04324

Docket Number: 

State: new-york

Court: New York Appellate Court

Date: 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z

Document:
Gaines v City of New York

2017 NY Slip Op 04324

Decided on June 1, 2017

Court of Appeals

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided on June 1, 2017

No. 87 SSM 8

[*1]Clarence Gaines, as the Executor of the Estate of Janie Gaines, Deceased, Respondent,
vCity of New York, et al., Defendants, Department of Social Services of the City of New York, Appellant.


Submitted by Eric Lee, for appellant.
Submitted by Tamara L. Stack, for respondent.


On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules, order affirmed, with costs, and certified question answered in the affirmative. Under the circumstances of this case, a valid supplemental needs trust was never effected. Claimants did not argue before Supreme Court that the trust was not a lifetime trust governed by EPTL 7-1.17 and EPTL 7-1.18. That argument is, therefore, unpreserved for our review. Chief Judge DiFiore and Judges Rivera, Stein, Fahey, Garcia and Wilson concur.
Decided June 1, 2017