N.Y. Estates, Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.7: Posthumous children
Where this section sits in the code
- Estates, Powers & Trusts Law
- Article 6. Classification, Creation, Definition Of, and Rules Governing Estates In Property
- Part 5. Rules Governing Future Estates
§ 6-5.7 Posthumous children
(a) Where a future estate is limited to children, distributees, heirs
or issue, posthumous children are entitled to take in the same manner as
if living at the death of their ancestors.
(b) A future estate conditioned upon the death of a person without
children, distributees, heirs or issue is defeated by the birth of a
child conceived before but born alive after the death of such person.
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