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N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1005 · Notice of application for letters of administration 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1006 · Failure to qualify The court must upon application of any person interested, a public administrator, the chief fiscal officer of the coun...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1007 · Administration de bonis non 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1101 · Incumbents The office of public administrator within the counties of the city of New York hereby is continued
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1102 · Appointment and removal; terms of office Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, appointment and removal shall be made as follow...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1103 · Deputy public administrator 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1104 · Oath and bond Each person appointed to the office of public administrator or deputy public administrator in any of the counties within th...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1105 · Compensation 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1106 · Commissions 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1107 · Deposit of funds
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1108 · Staff; salaries; offices Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, appointment and removal shall be made as follows: 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1109 · Monthly reports to court, mayor and comptroller; annual audit Each public administrator shall file monthly with the surrogate of the coun...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1110 · Responsibility of the city 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1111 · Vacancy in office; delivery of money, papers and effects 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1112 · Authority to act The public administrator in his proper county shall have authority to take possession of, manage and collect the rents o...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1113 · Reports of deaths and burials 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1114 · Inquiry and subpoena 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1115 · Letters not required for small estates 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1116 · Application for letters; when court may direct probate 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1117 · No separate bond or oath The public administrators within the counties of the city of New York shall not be required to file the designat...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1118 · Powers before issuance of letters Before letters are issued to him and subject to the provisions of section 1128 of this article the publ...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1119 · Notice to consuls When the estate is that of a noncitizen it shall be the duty of the public administrator when making application for le...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1120 · Appearance by consuls 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1121 · Grant of letters to others If any eligible distributee of the decedent shall petition to supersede the public administrator within 4 mont...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1122 · Delivery of estate assets to fiduciary; expenses, costs and commissions When the public administrator has been superseded he shall accoun...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1123 · General powers of public administrator
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1124 · Appeal; bond 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1125 · Notification to corporation counsel 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1126 · Property without value where no administration had
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1127 · Disposition of records after 10 years The public administrator is authorized to destroy the file and all of the papers relating to a dece...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1128 · Administrative board for the offices of the public administrators 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1201 · Definitions Whenever used in this article the term public administrator, unless otherwise required by the context or unless a contrary in...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1202 · Office established; appointment of successor The office of public administrator hereby is continued
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1203 · General bond Except in the counties of Erie, Monroe and Onondaga the person so appointed shall execute a bond with sureties to be approve...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1204 · Separate bonds Except in the counties of Erie and Onondaga the public administrator upon entering upon his duties in every estate the gro...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1205 · Vacancy in office; delivery of money, papers and effects; discharge 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1206 · Staff; offices; counsel 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1207 · Salary; commissions; retention of commissions 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1208 · Deposit of funds; report to court; annual audit 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1209 · Reports of deaths and burials 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1210 · Application for letters; when court may direct probate 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1211 · Letters not required; notice to be filed 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1212 · Powers before issuance of letters Before letters are issued to him and subject to the provisions of section 1128 of this act the public a...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1213 · General powers 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1214 · Service of process The public administrator is authorized to make service of process on creditors, legatees or distributees who are non-d...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1215 · When authorized to receive process or appear 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1216 · Inquiry and subpoena The public administrator may institute an inquiry in any case in which he is authorized to act as to any matter affe...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1217 · When superseded; accounting authorized 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1218 · Appeal; bond The public administrator is authorized to appeal from any decree, order or judgment affecting an estate in his charge or in ...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1219 · Chief fiscal officer of county appointed administrator; qualifications; fees
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1301 · Definitions In this article: 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1302 · Kinds of property This article is not applicable to any interest in real property in this state owned by a decedent, but his owner ship o...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1303 · Persons who may become a voluntary administrator
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1304 · Summary procedure 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1305 · Discharge of debtor, transfer agent, safe deposit company, bank, trust company or other person The delivery by a voluntary administrator ...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1306 · Powers 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1307 · Duties A voluntary administrator shall 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1308 · Liability of voluntary administrator collecting assets 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1309 · General provisions 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1310 · Payment of certain debts without administration 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1311 · Administration of funds payable under social security act of the United States, the unemployment insurance law and the workmen's compensa...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1312 · Construction This article is remedial and shall be given a liberal construction
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1401 · Proceeding to compel production of will Whenever it shall appear to the court, sua sponte, or by the petition of a person authorized unde...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1402 · Who may propound will; contents of petition; direction of court 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1403 · Persons to be served; content of process 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1404 · Witnesses to be examined; proof required 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1405 · When court may dispense with testimony of witness 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1406 · Proof of will by affidavit of attesting witness out of court 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1407 · Proof of lost or destroyed will A lost or destroyed will may be admitted to probate only if 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1408 · Probate not allowed unless court satisfied 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1409 · Notice of probate 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1410 · Who may file objections to probate of an alleged will Any person whose interest in property or in the estate of the testator would be adv...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1411 · Citation upon filing of objections 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1412 · Preliminary letters testamentary 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1413 · Revocation of letters upon proof of will Where temporary letters of administration, preliminary letters testamentary or letters of admini...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1414 · When letters testamentary may be issued 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1415 · Supplementary letters, executors not named in letters not to act If the disability of an infant or a noncitizen named as an executor in a...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1416 · Executor failing to qualify or renounce; how excluded 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1417 · Renunciation by nominated executor; retraction thereof 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1418 · Letters of administration with will annexed; when and to whom granted 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1419 · Process; renunciation or exclusion of persons having prior or equal right Every eligible person having a right to letters of administrati...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1420 · Proceeding for construction of will; effect of decree 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1421 · Election by surviving spouse 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1422 · Record of wills; evidence A certified copy of the record of the decree admitting a will to probate and of the record of the will so admit...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1423 · Record of wills in former courts of probate; evidence The exemplification of the record of a will proved before the judge of the former c...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1424 · Foreign wills; evidence after lapse of time The exemplification of the record of a will which has been duly proved before a court or offi...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1501 · Application of act to trusts 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1502 · Appointment of trustee 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1503 · Qualification of trustee appointed by another court When the supreme court appoints a testamentary trustee a certified copy of the order ...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1504 · Renunciation of appointment: retraction thereof 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1505 · Proceeding when testamentary trustee is also executor or administrator 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1506 · Nonliability for acts of predecessor executor A trustee who was not an executor of the estate of the same decedent shall not be liable fo...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1507 · Authority to mortgage, sell, lease or exchange 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1508 · Authority to release claims against the state by reason of appropriation of trust property not subject to power of sale 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1509 · Power over lifetime trusts Except to the extent inconsistent with other provisions of this act, the surrogate having jurisdiction of a li...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1601 · Legislative declaration of purpose It is the intent and purpose of this article that ancillary administration shall be granted in this st...
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1602 · Ancillary probate based upon domiciliary probate 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1603 · Effect of right to contest or of revocation 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1604 · Ancillary letters on foreign will 1
N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1605 · Original probate 1