Rules of construction · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 13-4.11 Rules of construction
(a) This part shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policy and to make uniform the laws with respect to the subject of this part among states enacting it.
(b) Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this part, the principles of law and equity supplement its provisions.
Courts must liberally apply these beneficiary-registration rules to promote their purposes and interstate uniformity. ★ Ordinary law and equity supplement matters not displaced by this part.
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.