Rights not affected · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 7-5.5 Rights not affected
This part does not affect:
(1) The rights of creditors of the depositor or his estate,
(2) The rights of fiduciaries of the estate of the depositor, or
(3) The rights of the surviving spouse of the depositor.
These trust-account rules do not affect the rights of the depositor’s creditors, estate fiduciaries, or surviving spouse. ★
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.