Estate of Martin J. Machat, Deceased, Avril Giacobbi and Eric R. Sklar, Executors - Page 18

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            in a literal sense, an alter ego of the court); In re Watson's                              
            Estate, 205 N.Y.S. 380, 381 (Surr. Ct.) (a temporary                                        
            administrator represents not only the interest of those taking                              
            under the will, but, in the case of rejection, the heirs at law                             
            and next of kin), affd. 205 N.Y.S. 382 (App. Div. 1924).                                    
                  While we recognize that New York law explicitly prescribes                            
            and limits a temporary administrator's authority, given the                                 
            nature of a temporary administrator's duties and, in this case,                             
            the actions taken by him, the benefits of the temporary                                     
            administrator's receipt of the pension funds immediately inured                             
            to the estate.  The pension funds were used to pay the estate's                             
            tax liabilities and other administration expenses including                                 
            attorney's fees, temporary administrator's fees, apartment rental                           
            and maintenance fees, real estate taxes, and storage fees.  The                             
            economic benefit to the estate is not diminished by the fact                                
            that, among other things, the temporary administrator lacked the                            
            power to distribute any residual funds to the ultimate                                      
            beneficiary.  Cf. Sneed v. Commissioner, 220 F.2d 313 (5th Cir.                             
            1955) (court imposed liability on the surviving spouse for income                           
            tax in each of the years that the community income was collected                            
            by the executor rather than some later year when distribution was                           
            actually made to the widow herself), affg. 17 T.C. 1344 (1952);                             
            see also Sproull v. Commissioner, 16 T.C. 244 (1951), affd.                                 
            per curiam 194 F.2d 541 (6th Cir. 1952); Moore v. Commissioner,                             





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