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NY S05285

Bill

Status

Engrossed

5/12/2025

Primary Sponsor

Luis Sepulveda

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Expands the list of persons eligible to serve as voluntary administrator of an intestate estate to include fiduciaries of a deceased distributee and competent adults who are not distributees (with filed consent of all competent adult distributees)

  • Reorganizes the priority order for voluntary administrators: surviving spouse, child, grandchild, parent, sibling, child of a sibling, or sibling of a parent

  • Updates terminology from "brother or sister, niece or nephew or aunt or uncle" to "sibling, child of a sibling or sibling of a parent"

  • Allows non-distributees to serve as voluntary administrator before the county's chief fiscal officer, provided all competent adult distributees consent in writing

  • 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

2/11/2026

Committee Referrals

Judiciary2/11/2026
Judiciary1/7/2026
Judiciary5/12/2025
Judiciary2/20/2025

Full Bill Text

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