Notice of legacy or distributive share payable to incarcerated individual or prisoner Where the legatee, distributee or beneficiary is an... · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 2222-a. Notice of legacy or distributive share payable to incarcerated
individual or prisoner
Where the legatee, distributee or beneficiary is an incarcerated individual serving a sentence of imprisonment with the state department of corrections and community supervision or a prisoner confined at a local correctional facility, the court shall give prompt written notice to the office of victim services, and at the same time direct that no payment be made to such incarcerated individual or prisoner for a period of thirty days following the date of entry of the order containing such direction.
If an estate share is payable to a person serving a state prison sentence or confined in a local correctional facility, the court must promptly notify the Office of Victim Services in writing and order that no payment be made for 30 days after entry of the order. ★
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.