N.Y. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law § 1062: Plaintiff may recover sum awarded; court may modify judgment

§ 1062. Plaintiff may recover sum awarded; court may modify judgment.

The plaintiff may, from time to time, maintain an action against the

owner, or a person who was the owner of the property, to recover any

instalment of the sum, so awarded to her for her dower, which became due

during his ownership, and remains unpaid. Or, if an instalment remains

due and unpaid, she may maintain an action to procure a sale of the

property, and enforce the payment of the instalments, due and to become

due, out of the proceeds of the sale. Such an action must be conducted

as if the charge upon the real property was a mortgage to the same

effect. If, at any time, it is made to appear to the court that the

rental value of the real property has materially increased or

diminished, the court may, by an order, to be made upon notice to all

the persons interested, modify the final judgment by increasing or

diminishing the sum to be paid to the plaintiff.