N.Y. General Obligations Law § 3-311: Marriage relationship not to affect construction of instruments and transactions involving personal property

§ 3-311. Marriage relationship not to affect construction of

instruments and transactions involving personal property. 1. Where an

instrument or transaction creating or transferring an interest in

personal property would create a joint tenancy or a tenancy in common in

persons not husband and wife, it shall create a joint tenancy or a

tenancy in common, as the case may be, in persons who are husband and

wife.

2. An instrument or transaction which does not create a right of

survivorship in personal property between persons who are not husband

and wife shall not create a right of survivorship in personal property

between persons who are husband and wife.

3. This section applies without regard to the identity of the person

who makes the transfer or at whose instance it is had, or from whom the

consideration for the instrument or transaction proceeds.