{"data":{"id":"us-ny/n.y.-surrogate-s-court-procedure-act-1718","jurisdiction":"us-ny","citation":"N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1718","heading":"Effect of such letters 1","body":"§ 1718. Effect of such letters\n  1. Ancillary letters of guardianship shall be issued as prescribed in\nthe preceding section, without security, except as provided in that\nsection.\n  2. They authorize the person to whom they are issued to demand and\nreceive the personal property and the rents and profits of the real\nproperty of the infant and the proceeds of the sale, mortgage or lease\nof the real property of the infant, to dispose of them in like manner as\na guardian of the property appointed as prescribed in this article, to\nremove them from the state and to maintain any action or special\nproceeding in the infant's behalf.\n  3. Letters so issued do not authorize the ancillary guardian to\nreceive from a domiciliary fiduciary subject to the jurisdiction of the\ncourt, money or other property belonging to the infant, in a case where\ndomiciliary letters have been issued in this state to a guardian of the\ninfant's property, except by special direction made for good cause shown\nof the court from which the domiciliary letters were issued or unless\nthe domiciliary letters have been revoked.","path":["Surrogate's Court Procedure Act","Article 17. Guardians and Custodians"],"source_url":"https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/SCP/1718","current_through":"2026-09-11","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:32:45Z","sha256":"32bc91a5ec28b664b4578de6d90527a0e02152625889913d7e9f585e4330ffae","source_id":"us-ny","stale":false,"prev":"us-ny/n.y.-surrogate-s-court-procedure-act-1717","next":"us-ny/n.y.-surrogate-s-court-procedure-act-1719"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}