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NY A11060
Bill
Status
10/7/2020
Primary Sponsor
Phillip Steck
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AI Summary
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Amends the Surrogate's Court Procedure Act to change the order of priority for who can serve as a voluntary administrator when someone dies intestate.
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Expands eligibility to include the fiduciary of a deceased distributee and a competent adult who is not a distributee (with consent of all competent distributees) before defaulting to the county's chief fiscal officer.
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Removes language that previously gave priority specifically to the surviving spouse first, instead treating the spouse as one option within an ordered list of distributees.
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Takes effect on the thirtieth day after becoming law.
Legislative Description
Relates to persons who may become a voluntary administrator; includes fiduciaries of a deceased distributee, or a competent adult who is not a distributee upon the filed consent of all competent distributees as persons who can become a voluntary administrator prior to the chief fiscal officer of the county becoming such.
Last Action
referred to judiciary
10/7/2020