Age eighteen election · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 7-6.21 Age eighteen election
Notwithstanding the foregoing sections of this part, if with respect to any gift made pursuant to 7-6.9, the designations of the custodian contains, in substance, the phrase, "until age eighteen", then all records of the custodian with respect to such gift shall contain such phrase, and the gift shall be administered under this part as if the word "eighteen" were substituted for the word "twenty-one" wherever such word appears in paragraphs (a) and (k) of section 7-6.1 and in section 7-6.20.
If a § 7-6.9 custodial gift names the custodian “until age 18,” every custodial record must repeat that phrase and the gift is administered by substituting 18 for 21 in the specified definition and termination rules. ★
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.