Service of process All processes of the court may be served and executed in any part of the state and without the state when authorized b... · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 212. Service of process
All processes of the court may be served and executed in any part of the state and without the state when authorized by law.
Any Surrogate’s Court process may be served and executed anywhere in New York and, when law authorizes it, outside New York. ★
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.