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NY S05285
Bill
Status
5/12/2025
Primary Sponsor
Luis Sepulveda
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AI Summary
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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)
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Reorganizes the priority order for voluntary administrators: surviving spouse, child, grandchild, parent, sibling, child of a sibling, or sibling of a parent
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Updates terminology from "brother or sister, niece or nephew or aunt or uncle" to "sibling, child of a sibling or sibling of a parent"
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Allows non-distributees to serve as voluntary administrator before the county's chief fiscal officer, provided all competent adult distributees consent in writing
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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
2/11/2026