Application · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 1-1.5 Application
Unless otherwise stated therein, the provisions of this chapter apply to the estates, and to instruments making dispositions or appointments thereof, of persons living on its effective date or born subsequent thereto, without regard to the date of execution of any such instrument; except that the provisions of this chapter shall not impair or defeat any rights which have accrued under dispositions or appointments in effect prior to its effective date.
Unless a provision says otherwise, this chapter applies to estates and dispositive or appointive instruments of people living on its effective date or born later, regardless of when an instrument was signed. It cannot impair or defeat rights already accrued under earlier-effective dispositions or appointments. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Surrogate's Court in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Surrogate's Court: Court Rules & the EPTL; Volume 5 — Your Career: Surrogate's Court in Plain English.