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N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 203 · Jurisdiction of parties and subject matter The court obtains jurisdiction in every case to make a decree or other determination by the ex...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 204 · Presumption of jurisdiction Where the jurisdiction of the court to make a decree or other determination is drawn in question collaterally...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 205 · Domiciliaries; jurisdiction and venue 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 206 · Non-domiciliaries; jurisdiction and venue 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 207 · Lifetime trusts; jurisdiction and venue 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 208 · Jurisdiction; how affected by locality of certain assets For the purpose of conferring jurisdiction upon the court: 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 209 · Powers incidental to jurisdiction of the court The court has power: 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 210 · Jurisdictional predicate 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 211 · When jurisdiction in personam obtained The court may exercise personal jurisdiction over any person as to any matter within the subject m...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 212 · Service of process All processes of the court may be served and executed in any part of the state and without the state when authorized b...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 301 · Statute of limitations (a) For the purpose of computing the period of limitation under article two of the civil practice law and rules, a...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 302 · Pleadings 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 303 · Verification All pleadings shall be verified in the manner provided by CPLR 3020
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 304 · Contents of petition In addition to such other requirements as may be applicable to the petition in a particular proceeding, a petition m...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 305 · Process, where returnable The process of a surrogate's court, except where otherwise prescribed by law, must be made returnable before th...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 306 · Citation
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 307 · Service of process 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 308 · Return day of citation 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 309 · When service of process complete 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 310 · Who may serve process 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 311 · Designee for person under disability Whenever the person to be served is a person under disability, whether or not a party so requests, t...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 312 · Additional parties; supplemental process The court may issue a supplemental process at any time and require any party to procure it and c...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 313 · Manner of giving notice when not otherwise prescribed Whenever the manner of giving notice is not otherwise prescribed, the court may dir...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 314 · Proof of service of subpoena or process Proof of service of a subpoena or process shall be made in the manner and form prescribed by CPLR...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 315 · Joinder and representation of persons interested in estates 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 316 · Process to attorney general where persons unknown In every case where it appears that there is no distributee or beneficiary or that it i...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 401 · Appearance of parties 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 402 · Appearance for infant, incompetent, conservatee or person under disability 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 403 · Appointment of guardian ad litem 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 403-a · Proceedings for the commitment of the guardianships and custody of infants; appointment of guardians ad litem 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 404 · Qualification and duties of guardian ad litem 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 405 · Compensation of guardian ad litem 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 406 · Person under disability bound by proceeding Whenever a guardian ad litem shall be appointed for a person under disability as defined in t...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 407 · Assignment of counsel for indigent persons 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 501 · Transfer, consolidation and severance 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 502 · Trial by jury; waiver or withdrawal 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 503 · Proceedings upon jury trial 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 504 · Jurors Jurors shall be selected from any panel in attendance at any trial term of the supreme court or county court of the county
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 505 · Trial by the court 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 506 · Reference to hear and report 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 507 · Testimony of witness 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 508 · Before whom testimony may be taken; issuance of commission
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 509 · Effect of uncontroverted allegations of fact Except as otherwise prescribed by law, a petition, or account filed in a proceeding, unless ...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 510 · Pretrial conference At any time after issue has been joined, the court, in its discretion, may require the attendance of all parties and ...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 601 · Definition of decree and order; how order enforced The determination of the rights of the parties to a special proceeding in the court is...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 602 · Decree or order, when evidence of assets A decree directing payment by a fiduciary to a creditor of, or a person interested in, the estat...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 603 · Transcript of decree or order 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 604 · Decree; instruments of satisfaction Upon the request of any person interested, there may be recorded with the court any instrument acknow...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 605 · Enforcement of decree by execution An execution shall not issue out of the court
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 606 · Enforcement of decree or order by punishment for contempt; when 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 607 · Enforcement of decree or order by punishment for contempt; manner A person interested in the compliance with a decree or order, directing...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 701 · Requisites of letters 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 702 · Limited and restrictive letters Letters may be granted limiting and restricting the powers and rights of the holder thereof: 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 703 · Letters evidence of authority; effect of appeal 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 704 · Priority among different letters A person who applies in good faith therefor, and to whom letters are first issued from a court having ju...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 705 · Time, how reckoned upon successive letters Where it is prescribed by law that an act must or may be done within a specified time after le...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 706 · When surviving or remaining fiduciary may act; when successor must be appointed 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 707 · Eligibility to receive letters Letters may issue to a natural person or to a person authorized by law to be a fiduciary except as follows: 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 708 · Qualification of fiduciaries Before letters are granted to a fiduciary, the fiduciary shall file in the surrogate's court or family court: 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 709 · Objection to grant of letters or appointment of lifetime trustee Any person interested, including a nominated fiduciary, before letters a...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 710 · Objections which require bond from fiduciary not otherwise required to file bond 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 711 · Suspension, modification or revocation of letters or removal for disqualification or misconduct In any of the following cases a co-fiduci...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 712 · Petition; process thereupon; suspension A petition as prescribed in the preceding section must show that the case is one therein specifie...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 713 · Hearing; decree Upon the return of process issued as prescribed in the preceding section the court may make a decree suspending, modifyin...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 714 · Certain orders or decrees of other courts to be filed in the surrogate's court Whenever the supreme court shall suspend or remove or acce...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 715 · Application by fiduciary for permission to resign A fiduciary may present to the court at any time a petition praying that he or she be p...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 716 · Proceedings thereupon If it shall be determined that the petition should be granted, an intermediate order may be entered forthwith or at...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 717 · Suspension of powers of fiduciaries in war service 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 718 · Nominated fiduciaries in war service 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 719 · In what cases letters may be suspended, modified or revoked, or a lifetime trustee removed or his powers suspended or modified, without p...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 720 · Effect and contents of decree suspending, modifying or revoking letters or removing a lifetime trustee or suspending or modifying his pow...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 721 · Preceding section qualified The preceding section does not affect the liability of a person to whom money or other property has been deli...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 722 · Deposit of securities may be ordered on revocation of letters or removal When upon the revocation of letters or removal of a fiduciary a ...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 723 · Copy of letters issued to chief fiscal officer of county to be transmitted to comptroller
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 724 · Inapplicability to lifetime trustees Except as otherwise expressly provided or required by context, this article shall not be applicable ...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 725 · Rules relating to estate valuation after letters The chief administrator of the courts shall promulgate rules to insure that, after lette...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 801 · Amount; condition; number of sureties; obligees 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 802 · Approval and filing of bonds; designation of clerk 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 803 · Deposit of assets to reduce bond 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 804 · Bond required when assets deposited with bank or trust company serving as co-fiduciary When a bank or trust company is a fiduciary and is...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 805 · Bond of administrator, temporary administrator or administrator c
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 806 · Bond of a testamentary trustee or executor acting as trustee Whenever a testamentary trustee is appointed by will or order of the court o...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 807 · Bond of a legal life tenant Whenever a legal life tenant is entitled to the possession or control of property under a will, he shall if t...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 808 · Liability of surety for assets received by principal in another fiduciary capacity 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 809 · Action or proceeding on bond; disposition of proceeds; summary determination in certain cases 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 810 · Application of article to fiduciaries heretofore appointed The provisions of this article shall apply to fiduciaries heretofore appointed...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 811 · General conformity of bonds to CPLR The provisions of this article shall govern bonds in this court but to the extent consistent with suc...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 901 · When temporary administration may be granted Temporary administration may be granted if the court finds it is in the best interests of th...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 902 · Procedure for appointment of temporary administrator 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 903 · General powers of temporary administrator 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 905 · Actions and proceedings maintainable by or against a temporary administrator 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 906 · Payment of claims by temporary administrator At any time after the issuance of letters of temporary administration, process may issue to ...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 907 · Special powers of temporary administrator in estates of absentees or internees 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 908 · Settlement of temporary administrator's account of a decedent's estate 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 910 · Annual account of internee's estate 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 911 · Final determination and distribution of an absentee's estate 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1001 · Order of priority for granting letters of administration 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1002 · Petition; persons entitled to petition for appointment of an administrator 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1003 · Persons who must be served with process; waiver of process; dispensation with service of process 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1004 · Proceedings upon return of process; decree 1