What a testamentary disposition includes · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 3-3.1 What a testamentary disposition includes
Unless the will provides otherwise, a disposition by the testator of all his property passes all of the property he was entitled to dispose of at the time of his death.
Unless the will says otherwise, a testator’s disposition of all property passes everything the testator was entitled to dispose of at death. ★
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.