Non-marital children · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 5-4.5 Non-marital children
For the purposes of this part, a non-marital child is the distributee of his father and paternal kindred and the father and paternal kindred of a non-marital child are that child's distributees to the extent permitted by 4-1.2.
For wrongful-death provisions, a non-marital child is a distributee of the father and paternal family, and they are the child’s distributees, to the extent permitted by § 4-1.2. ★
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.