New York Estates, Powers & Trusts Law

Every section of the New York Estates, Powers & Trusts Law, in order — 370 sections. Source: NY Senate Open Legislation, current through November 4, 2026.

• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-1.1 — Short title; how cited
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-1.2 — References
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-1.3 — Rules governing use of certain words
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-1.4 — Severability
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-1.5 — Application
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.1 — Codicil
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.10 — Issue
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.11 — Per capita
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.12 — Person
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.13 — Personal representative
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.14 — Per stirpes
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.15 — Property
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.16 — Representation
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.17 — Specific disposition.
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.18 — Testamentary beneficiary
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.19 — Will
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.2 — Creator
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.20 — Lifetime trust
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.3 — Demonstrative disposition
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.4 — Disposition
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.5 — Distributee
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.6 — Estate
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.7 — Fiduciary
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.8 — General disposition
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.9 — Incompetent
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 1-2.9-A — Infant or minor
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.1 — Heirs at law and next of kin defined
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.10 — Provisions relating to infants and minors
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.11 — Renunciation of property interests
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.12 — Credit shelter formula bequests
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.13 — Certain formula clauses to be construed to refer to the federal
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.14 — Right to recover state estate and gift taxes where decedent
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.15 — Consequences of partly ineffective dispositions of trust
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.2 — Issue to take per capita, per stirpes or by representation
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.3 — Adopted children and posthumous children as members of a class
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.4 — Words of inheritance unnecessary
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.5 — Advancements and their adjustment
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.6 — Disposition of property where a person dies within one hundred
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.7 — Presumption of death from absence; effect of exposure to
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.8 — Apportionment of federal and state estate or other death taxes;
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 2-1.9 — Distributions in kind by executors and trustees
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-1.1 — Who may make wills of, and exercise testamentary powers of
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-1.2 — What property may be disposed of by will
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-1.3 — Who may receive testamentary dispositions of property;
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-2.1 — Execution and attestation of wills; formal requirements
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-2.2 — Nuncupative and holographic wills
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-3.1 — What a testamentary disposition includes
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-3.2 — Competence of attesting witness who is beneficiary; application
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-3.3 — Disposition to issue or brothers or sisters of testator not to
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-3.4 — Consequences of partly ineffective testamentary dispositions of
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-3.5 — Conditions qualifying dispositions; conditions against contest;
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-3.6 — Encumbrances on property of decedent or on proceeds of insurance
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-3.7 — Testamentary disposition to trustee under, or in accordance with
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-3.8 — Validity of a purchase of real property notwithstanding its
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-3.9 — Testamentary direction to purchase annuities
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-4.1 — Revocation of wills; effect on codicils
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-4.2 — Agreement to convey property previously disposed of by will not
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-4.3 — Revocatory effect of a conveyance, settlement or other act
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-4.4 — Conveyance of property of an incompetent or conservatee,
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-4.5 — Insurance proceeds from specific disposition not subject to
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-4.6 — Revocation or alteration of later will not to revive prior will
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-5.1 — Formal validity, intrinsic validity, effect, interpretation,
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-6.1 — Short title
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-6.2 — Definitions
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-6.3 — Law applicable to electronic will; principles of equity
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-6.4 — Choice of law regarding execution
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-6.5 — Caution to the testator
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-6.6 — Execution of electronic will
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-6.7 — Revocation
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-6.8 — Electronic will attested and made self-proving at time of
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 3-6.9 — Filing of electronic will
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 4-1.1 — Descent and distribution of a decedent's estate
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 4-1.2 — Inheritance by non-marital children
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 4-1.3 — Inheritance by children conceived after the death of an intended
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 4-1.4 — Disqualification of parent to take intestate share
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 4-1.5 — Other disqualifications
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 4-1.6 — Disqualification of joint tenant in certain instances
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-1.1 — Right of election by surviving spouse
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-1.1-A — Right of election by surviving spouse
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-1.2 — Disqualification as surviving spouse
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-1.3 — Revocatory effect of marriage after execution of will
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-1.4 — Revocatory effect of divorce, annulment or declaration of
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-3.1 — Exemption for benefit of family
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-3.2 — Revocatory effect of birth of child after execution of will
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-3.4 — Action in supreme court by child born after execution of will,
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-4.1 — Action by personal representative for wrongful act, neglect or
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-4.2 — Trial and burden of proof of contributory negligence
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-4.3 — Amount of recovery
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-4.4 — Distribution of damages recovered
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-4.5 — Non-marital children
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-4.6 — Application to compromise action
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-1.1 — Estates classified
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-1.2 — Estates tail abolished; future estates limited thereon
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-1.3 — When estate for life of third person is real property; when
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-2.1 — Estates in severalty, joint tenancy, tenancy by the entirety and
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-2.2 — When estate is in common, in joint tenancy or by the entirety
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-3.1 — Estates in possession and future estates
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-3.2 — Kinds of future estates
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-3.3 — Concerning the creation of certain future estates
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-3.4 — When future estates are created
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-4.1 — Definition of an estate in possession
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-4.10 — Definition of a future estate subject to a condition precedent
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-4.2 — Definition of a future estate
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-4.3 — Definition of a remainder
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-4.4 — Definition of a reversion
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-4.5 — Definition of a possibility of reverter
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-4.6 — Definition of a right of reacquisition
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-4.7 — Definition of a future estate indefeasibly vested
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-4.8 — Definition of a future estate vested subject to open
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-4.9 — Definition of a future estate vested subject to complete
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.1 — Characteristics of future estates
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.10 — When future estates are defeated
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.11 — Non-destructibility of remainders subject to a condition
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.12 — Future rents and profits subject to rules governing future
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.2 — Power of appointment not to prevent vesting
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.3 — Future estates in the alternative
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.4 — Implication of cross remainders between tenants in common
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.5 — Future estate valid though contingency improbable
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.6 — Meaning of heirs, distributees and issue in certain remainders
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.7 — Posthumous children
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.8 — Heirs or distributees of life tenant take as purchasers
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-5.9 — Heirs or distributees of creator take as purchasers
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-6.1 — Application
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-6.2 — Rebuttable presumptions
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-6.3 — Disposition upon death
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-6.4 — Perfection of title
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-6.5 — Purchaser for value or lender
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-6.6 — Effect and construction of part
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 6-6.7 — Short title
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.1 — When trust interests not to merge
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.10 — Provision by non-domiciliary creator as to law to govern trust
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.11 — Application of principal to creator of trust as reimbursement
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.12 — Supplemental needs trusts established for persons with severe
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.13 — Division of trusts and establishment of separate trusts
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.14 — Who may make a lifetime trust
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.15 — What property may be disposed of by lifetime trust
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.16 — Revocation of lifetime trust by will
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.17 — Execution, amendment and revocation of lifetime trusts
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.18 — Funding of lifetime trust
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.19 — Application for termination of uneconomical trust
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.2 — Trustee of passive trust not to take
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.3 — Purchase-money resulting trust abolished
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.4 — Purposes for which trust may be created
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.5 — When trust interest inalienable; exception
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.6 — Application of principal to income beneficiary
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.7 — Interest remaining in creator of trust
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.8 — Duration of trust for benefit of creditors
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-1.9 — Revocation of trusts
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-2.1 — Extent of trustee's estate
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-2.2 — When estate of trustee ceases
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-2.3 — Trust estate not to descend on death of trustee; appointment,
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-2.4 — Act of trustee in contravention of trust
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-2.5 — Suspension of powers of trustee in war service
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-2.6 — Resignation, suspension or removal of trustee
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-2.7 — Accounting by trustee in supreme court
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-2.8 — Commissions of trustee to sell real property for benefit of
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-3.1 — Disposition in trust for creator void as against creditors
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-3.2 — Bona fide purchasers and creditors protected
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-3.3 — Person paying money to the trustee protected
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-3.4 — Excess income from trust property subject to creditors' claims
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-3.5 — Rights of creditors to obtain information concerning
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-5.1 — Definitions
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-5.2 — Terms of a trust account
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-5.3 — Payment to beneficiary
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-5.4 — Effect of payment
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-5.5 — Rights not affected
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-5.6 — Joint depositors
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-5.7 — Multiple beneficiaries
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-5.8 — Application
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.1 — Definitions
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.10 — Single custodianship
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.11 — Validity and effect of transfer
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.12 — Care of custodial property
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.13 — Powers of custodian
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.14 — Use of custodial property
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.15 — Custodian's expenses, compensation, and bond
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.16 — Exemption of third person from liability
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.17 — Liability to third persons
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.18 — Renunciation, resignation, death, or removal of custodian;
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.19 — Accounting by and determination of liability of custodian
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.2 — Scope and jurisdiction
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.20 — Termination of custodianship
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.21 — Age eighteen election
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.22 — Effect on existing custodianships
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.23 — Applicability
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.24 — Uniformity of application and construction
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.25 — Short title
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.26 — Severability
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.3 — Nomination of custodian
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.4 — Transfer by gift or exercise of power of appointment
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.5 — Transfer authorized by will or trust
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.6 — Other transfer by fiduciary
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.7 — Transfer by obligor
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.8 — Receipt for custodial property
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-6.9 — Manner of creating custodial property and effecting transfer;
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-7.1 — Child performer trust account
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 7-8.1 — Trusts for pets
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 8-1.1 — Disposition of property for charitable purposes
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 8-1.2 — Certain charitable trusts authorized
• N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 8-1.3 — Certain charitable trusts regulated