Foreign family members challenge wife’s control of dead husband’s estate
Brooklyn court demands wife pay children’s guardian
A woman thought she had been happily married when her husband died, leaving her administrator of his estate — until her in-laws arrived from Egypt to challenge her appointment.
Heidi Cedno and her husband sealed their nuptials in New York in 1997 and moved to Delaware until her husband’s death in February 2011. Cedno contends that she and her husband were a happily married couple who jointly raised their four children, ranging in age from 14 to 17 years old.
Upon her husband’s death, Cedno, as the widow, was appointed administrator of the estate, with the power to make decisions that could affect the financial interests of her dependent children.