N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 2222-a: Notice of legacy or distributive share payable to incarcerated individual or prisoner Where the legatee, distributee or beneficiary is an...

§ 2222-a. Notice of legacy or distributive share payable to incarcerated

individual or prisoner

Where the legatee, distributee or beneficiary is an incarcerated

individual serving a sentence of imprisonment with the state department

of corrections and community supervision or a prisoner confined at a

local correctional facility, the court shall give prompt written notice

to the office of victim services, and at the same time direct that no

payment be made to such incarcerated individual or prisoner for a period

of thirty days following the date of entry of the order containing such

direction.