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NY A06280
Bill
Status
3/3/2025
Primary Sponsor
Phillip Steck
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AI Summary
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Expands the list of persons eligible to serve as voluntary administrator for intestate estates to include fiduciaries of a deceased distributee and competent adults who are not distributees (with filed consent of all competent adult distributees)
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Modernizes terminology in the succession order, replacing "brother or sister, niece or nephew or aunt or uncle" with "sibling, child of a sibling or sibling of a parent"
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Maintains the existing priority order beginning with surviving spouse, followed by child, grandchild, parent, and other relatives before allowing county fiscal officers to act
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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
1/7/2026