Opinion ID: 3214099
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: The Testimony of Stephen Voccola

Text: Stephen Voccola testified that his relationship with his father became “adversarial” after his father commenced the 2005 litigation in which he was named as a defendant. However, he testified that their relationship was mended in 2007. He stated that he was an attorney and that, before the instant suit commenced, his father asked him “if [he] would represent him to sue Patricia to get the property he had given her back;” it was Stephen’s testimony that he declined his father’s request. It was further his testimony that in 2010 his father complained to him that Barbara and Edward were “constantly badgering him to transfer property into their name” and were threatening to put him in a nursing home. However, Stephen acknowledged on crossexamination that he had recently filed his own lawsuit against Barbara and Edward concerning the pour-over trust set up in Mr. Voccola’s will. Stephen testified that his father’s signatures on all three waivers were genuine. He specifically stated with respect to all of the waivers that his belief that the signatures were genuine was “without equivocation.”