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NY S04342

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/9/2023

Primary Sponsor

Luis Sepulveda

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Origin

Senate

2023-2024 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Amends the Surrogate's Court Procedure Act to expand eligibility for voluntary administrators in intestate estates to include fiduciaries of deceased distributees and non-distributees (with consent of all competent adult distributees)

  • Changes the priority order for voluntary administrators to list "competent adult distributee who is the surviving spouse, child, grandchild, parent, brother or sister, niece or nephew or aunt or uncle" in a single category rather than prioritizing the surviving spouse first

  • Adds the fiduciary of a deceased distributee and a competent adult non-distributee (upon filed consents of all competent adult distributees) to the hierarchy of persons eligible to serve as voluntary administrator before the chief fiscal officer

  • Takes effect 30 days 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

3/20/2024

Committee Referrals

Judiciary3/20/2024
Judiciary1/3/2024
Judiciary3/9/2023
Judiciary2/7/2023

Full Bill Text

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