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General Provisions Relating to Letters

N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 701— Requisites of letters 1
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 702— Limited and restrictive letters Letters may be granted limiting and restricting the powers and rights of the holder thereof: 1
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 703— Letters evidence of authority; effect of appeal 1
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 704— Priority among different letters A person who applies in good faith therefor, and to whom letters are first issued from a court having ju..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 705— Time, how reckoned upon successive letters Where it is prescribed by law that an act must or may be done within a specified time after le..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 706— When surviving or remaining fiduciary may act; when successor must be appointed 1
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 707— Eligibility to receive letters Letters may issue to a natural person or to a person authorized by law to be a fiduciary except as follows: 1
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 708— Qualification of fiduciaries Before letters are granted to a fiduciary, the fiduciary shall file in the surrogate's court or family court: 1
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 709— Objection to grant of letters or appointment of lifetime trustee Any person interested, including a nominated fiduciary, before letters a..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 710— Objections which require bond from fiduciary not otherwise required to file bond 1
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 711— Suspension, modification or revocation of letters or removal for disqualification or misconduct In any of the following cases a co-fiduci..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 712— Petition; process thereupon; suspension A petition as prescribed in the preceding section must show that the case is one therein specifie..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 713— Hearing; decree Upon the return of process issued as prescribed in the preceding section the court may make a decree suspending, modifyin..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 714— Certain orders or decrees of other courts to be filed in the surrogate's court Whenever the supreme court shall suspend or remove or acce..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 715— Application by fiduciary for permission to resign A fiduciary may present to the court at any time a petition praying that he or she be p..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 716— Proceedings thereupon If it shall be determined that the petition should be granted, an intermediate order may be entered forthwith or at..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 717— Suspension of powers of fiduciaries in war service 1
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 718— Nominated fiduciaries in war service 1
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 719— In what cases letters may be suspended, modified or revoked, or a lifetime trustee removed or his powers suspended or modified, without p..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 720— Effect and contents of decree suspending, modifying or revoking letters or removing a lifetime trustee or suspending or modifying his pow..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 721— Preceding section qualified The preceding section does not affect the liability of a person to whom money or other property has been deli..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 722— Deposit of securities may be ordered on revocation of letters or removal When upon the revocation of letters or removal of a fiduciary a ..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 723— Copy of letters issued to chief fiscal officer of county to be transmitted to comptroller
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 724— Inapplicability to lifetime trustees Except as otherwise expressly provided or required by context, this article shall not be applicable ..
N.Y. Surr. Ct. Proc. Act § 725— Rules relating to estate valuation after letters The chief administrator of the courts shall promulgate rules to insure that, after lette..