A daughter of business and civic leader Frank J. McGuire, whose $5.4 million estate has been mired in surrogate’s court proceedings for nearly five years, has agreed to submit a DNA sample to determine whether he had an eighth child who was not known to him before he died in 2020.

Multimillionaire's estate mired in claims by a possible unknown child; Diocese seeking $2M in pledges

The possibility that deceased businessman Frank McGuire had an unknown-to-him eighth child, born out of wedlock, has turned his already complex estate proceedings into a legal labyrinth that is heading into its fifth year with no end in sight.

Jeannie Marie McGuire said she thinks the DNA sample would help speed the settling of her father’s estate.

But her offer comes with a caveat: She wants Jordan A. Tripi,

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