Bill Text: NY A04171 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that no distributive share in the estate of a decedent shall be allowed to a person convicted of committing or attempting to commit a sex offense where the victim was the decedent.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-05 - held for consideration in judiciary [A04171 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A04171-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4171
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 2, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, HAWLEY, McKEVITT -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. CROUCH, OAKS, SAYWARD, THIELE -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the estates, powers and trusts law, in relation to the
distribution of a decedent's estate
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The estates, powers and trusts law is amended by adding a
2 new section 4-1.3 to read as follows:
3 S 4-1.3 DISQUALIFICATION OF CERTAIN PERSONS FROM TAKING A DISTRIBUTIVE
4 SHARE
5 (A) NO DISTRIBUTIVE SHARE IN THE ESTATE OF A DECEDENT SHALL BE ALLOWED
6 TO A PERSON CONVICTED OF COMMITTING OR ATTEMPTING TO COMMIT A SEX
7 OFFENSE DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW WHERE THE
8 VICTIM WAS THE DECEDENT.
9 (B) IN THE EVENT THAT A PERSON IS DISQUALIFIED FROM TAKING A DISTRIBU-
10 TIVE SHARE IN THE ESTATE OF A DECEDENT, UNDER THIS SECTION, THE ESTATE
11 OF SUCH DECEDENT SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH 4-1.1 AS THOUGH
12 SUCH PERSON HAD PREDECEASED THE DECEDENT.
13 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
14 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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