Brooklyn judge declines to honor Egyptian order
In deciding a seemingly routine guardianship proceeding, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Barros had to contend with New York State law as well as a guardianship order previously executed in Egypt.
In refusing to recognize the Egyptian order, naming a son as guardian to his elderly father, as a complete authority, Barros found for the elderly man’s wife.
In Matter of Gabr, 100223/2011, Ahmed Mohamed Gabr sought to control the U.S. assets of his father, Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Gabr. The elder Gabr was a resident in Egypt for many years before returning to the United States. While in Egypt, he married Sana’a Mohamed Gabr and suffered a stroke shortly thereafter that left him wheelchair bound.
Upon returning the United States, the elder Gabr set up residence in Brooklyn, where his son sought to have the Egyptian guardianship order enforced.
While in Egypt, the son Gabr sought and received a guardianship order from an Egyptian tribunal after asserting that Sana’a “forced and unduly influenced” the father Gabr to dissipate $300,000.00 of his funds. Barros found that the accusations the son Gabr relied on to receive the Egyptian order “proved false.”