Kinds of property This article is not applicable to any interest in real property in this state owned by a decedent, but his owner ship o... · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 1302. Kinds of property
This article is not applicable to any interest in real property in this state owned by a decedent, but his owner ship of an interest in real property shall not prevent the use of this article in administering his personal property.
This small-estate article does not administer a decedent’s New York real-property interest, but owning such an interest does not prevent use of the article for the decedent’s personal property. ★
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 2 — The Surrogate's Court Procedure Act; Volume 5 — Your Career: Surrogate's Court in Plain English.