How to sue or be sued · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 11-4.1 How to sue or be sued
Actions or proceedings brought by or against a personal representative must be brought by or against him in his representative capacity.
An action or proceeding by or against a personal representative must name that person in the representative capacity. ★
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.