N.Y. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law § 1712: By whom maintainable

§ 1712. By whom maintainable. The special proceeding may be maintained

by the general or testamentary guardian of the property of the infant,

by the committee of the property of the incompetent person or the

conservator of the property of the conservatee, or by any relative or

other person in behalf of the infant, incompetent person, or conservatee

or by an infant of the age of fourteen years or over in his own behalf.

The special proceeding may be maintained, in a case specified in

subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 1711, by a person entitled to the

conveyance; and, also, in a case specified in subdivision 4 of that

section, by the executor or administrator of the person who made the

contract, or of a person who died seized or possessed of the real

property or interest in real property, or by an heir or devisee of

either of those persons, to whom the real property or interest in real

property has descended or was devised. Where the proceeding is in behalf

of an infant of the age of fourteen years or over the infant shall join

therein.