N.Y. Estates, Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.10: Provisions relating to infants and minors

§ 2-1.10 Provisions relating to infants and minors

(a) Unless the creator expressly provides to the contrary, in any

instrument executed prior to September first, nineteen hundred

seventy-four, the words "minor", "minority", "infant", "infancy",

"majority", "adult" and words of like import shall mean or refer to a

person or a class of persons under the age of twenty-one years or who

shall have reached such age, according to the context, and, unless

otherwise expressly provided in any instrument executed on or after

September first, nineteen hundred seventy-four shall mean or refer to a

person or a class of persons under the age of eighteen years or who

shall have reached such age, according to the context, except that any

designation of a testamentary guardian of a "minor" or an "infant" shall

refer to a guardianship of a person who has not reached the age of

eighteen years, regardless of the date of the instrument containing the

designation.

(b) This act shall not apply to distributions made subsequent to

September first, nineteen hundred seventy-four and prior to the

effective date of this act.