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- New York’s Estates, Powers and Trusts Law
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-1.1: Who May Make Wills of, and Exercise Testamentary Powers of Appointment Over Property
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-1.2: What Property May be Disposed of by Will
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-1.3: Who May Receive Testamentary Dispositions of Property
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-2.2: Nuncupative and Holographic Wills
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-3.1: What a Testamentary Disposition Includes
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-3.2: Competence of Attesting Witness Who is Beneficiary; Application
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-3.6: Encumbrances on Property of Decedent or on Proceeds of Insurance Policy on Life of Decedent Not Chargeable Against Assets of Decedent’s Estate
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-4.1: Revocation of Wills; Effect on Codicils
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-4.2: Agreement to Convey Property Previously Disposed of by Will Not a Revocation
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-4.4: Conveyance of Property of an Incompetent or Conservatee
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 4-1.1: Descent and Distribution of Decedent’s Estate
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 4-1.2: Inheritance by Non-Marital Children
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 4-1.4: Disqualification of Parent to Take Intestate Share
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 4-1.5: Other Disqualifications
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 4-1.6: Disqualification of Joint Tenant in Certain Instances
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 5-1.1: A Right of Election by Surviving Spouse
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 5-1.2: Disqualification as Surviving Spouse
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 5-1.3: Revocatory Effect of Marriage After Execution of Will
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 5-1.4: Revocatory Effect of Divorce, Annulment or Declaration of Nullity, or Dissolution of Marriage on Disposition, Appointment or Other Provision in Will to Former Spous
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 7-1.1: When Trust Interests not to Merge
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 7-1.2: Trustee of Passive Trust to Take
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 7-1.3: Purchase-Money Resulting Trust Abolished
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 7-1.4: Purposes for Which Trust may be Created
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 7-1.5: When Trust Interest Inalienable; Exception
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 7-1.7: Interest Remaining in Creator of Trust
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 7-1.8: Duration of Trust for Benefit of Creditors
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 7-1.9: Revocation of Trusts
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 7-1.12: Supplemental Needs Trust Established for Persons With Severe and Chronic or Persistent Disabilities
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 7-1.14: Who may Make a Lifetime Trust
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 11-1.1: Fiduciaries’ Powers
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 11-1.3: Power and Duty of Executor Before Probate
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 11-1.4: Validity of Execution of Power to Sell, Mortgage or Lease Real Property
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 11-1.5: Payment of Testamentary Dispositions or Distributive Shares
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 11-1.6: Property Held as Fiduciary to be Kept Separate
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 11-1.7: Limitations on Powers and Immunities of Executors and Testamentary Trustees
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 11-1.8: Power of Fiduciary or Custodian for Fiduciary to Deposit United States Government and Agency Securities With a Federal Reserve Bank
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 11-1.9: Power of Fiduciary or Custodian for Fiduciary to Deposit Securities in a Central Depository
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 11-1.10: Power of Fiduciary to Employ a Broker-Dealer as Custodian
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-2.1: Execution and Attestation of Wills; Formal Requirements
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-3.4: Consequences of Partly Ineffective Testamentary Dispositions of Property to Two or More Residuary Beneficiaries
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-3.5: Conditions Qualifying Dispositions; Conditions Against Contest; Limitations Thereon
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-3.7: Testamentary Disposition to Trustee Under, or in Accordance With
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-3.8: Validity of a Purchase of Real Property Notwithstanding its Disposition by Will
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 3-3.9: Testamentary Direction to Purchase Annuities
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 4-1.6: Revocation or Alteration of Later Will Not to Revive Prior Will or Any Provisions Thereof
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 12-1.2: Order of Liability; Preferences
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 12-1.3: Extent of Liability; Judgment Debtor’s Right to Indemnity and Contribution
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 12-2.2: Action May Not be Joint or Several; Right to Implead
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 12-2.4: Effect of Judgment
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 13-1.2: Assets; Debt Due From Executor to Testator; Effect of Discharge by Will
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 5-3.1: Exemption For Benefit of Family
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 5-3.2: Revocatory Effect of Birth of Child After Execution of Will
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 12-2.3: Effect of Application of Surrogate to Sell Real Property
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 12-1.1: Liability of Distributees and Testamentary Beneficiaries
- Estate, Powers and Trusts, § 12-2.1: Action Not Impaired by Failure of Creditor or Other Person to Present Claim to Representative as Prescribed by Law
- New York Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 701: Requisites of Letters
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 702: Limited and Restrictive Letters
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 703: Letters Evidence of Authority; Effect of Appeal
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 704: Priority Among Different Letters
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 705: Time, How Reckoned Upon Successive Letters
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 711: Suspension, Modification or Revocation of Letters or Removal For Disqualification or Misconduct
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 712: Petition; Process Thereupon; Suspension
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 713: Hearing; Decree
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 715: Application by Fiduciary for Permission to Resign
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1001: Order of Priority for Granting Letters of Administration
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1002: Petition; Persons Entitled to Petition for Appointment of an Administrator
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1003: Persons Who Must be Served With Process; Waiver of Process; Dispensation With Service of Process
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1004: Proceedings Upon Return of Process; Decree
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1005: Notice of Application for Letters of Administration
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1007: Administration De Bonis Non
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1302: Supplementary Letters, Executors Not Named in Letters Not to Act
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1303: Persons Who May Become a Voluntary Administrator
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1308: Liability of Voluntary Administrator Collecting Assets
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1401: Proceeding to Compel Production of Will
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1402: Who May Propound Will; Contents of Petition; Direction of Court
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1403: Persons to be Served; Content of Process
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1407: Proof of Lost or Destroyed Will
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1408: Probate Not Allowed Unless Court Satisfied
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1409: Notice of Probate
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1410: Who May File Objections to Probate of an Alleged Will
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1411: Citation Upon Filing of Objections
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1412: Preliminary letters testamentary
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1413: Revocation of Letters Upon Proof of Will
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1414: When Letters Testamentary May be Issued
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1415: Supplementary Letters, Executors Not Named in Letters Not to Act
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1416: Executor Failing to Qualify or Renounce; How Excluded
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1417: Renunciation by Nominated Executor; Retraction Thereof
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1418: Letters of Administration With Will Annexed; When and to Whom Granted
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1419: Process; Renunciation or Exclusion of Persons Having Prior or Equal Right
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1420: Proceeding for Construction of Will; Effect of Decree
- Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 1422: Record Of Wills; Evidence
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