Courtroom 402 of the New York County Surrogate's Court on Chambers Street was bathed in the warm morning light filtering through high clerestory windows. The room was solemn and steeped in history, its walnut-paneled walls lined with portraits of legendary surrogate judges who had resolved the estates of Astor, Vanderbilt, and Morgan. Surrogate Judge Rita Gonzalez presided from the elevated bench, reviewing the voluminous two-thousand-page final accounting binder for the…
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