New York § 1712 - 1712By whom maintainable
Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 1712 — 1712By whom maintainable, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 1712. 1712By whom maintainable
§ 1712. By whom maintainable. The special proceeding may be maintained by the general or testamentary guardian of the property of the infant, by the committee of the property of the incompetent person or the conservator of the property of the conservatee, or by any relative or other person in behalf of the infant, incompetent person, or conservatee or by an infant of the age of fourteen years or over in his own behalf. The special proceeding may be maintained, in a case specified in subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 1711, by a person entitled to the conveyance; and, also, in a case specified in subdivision 4 of that section, by the executor or administrator of the person who made the contract, or of a person who died seized or possessed of the real property or interest in real property, or by an heir or devisee of either of those persons, to whom the real property or interest in real property has descended or was devised. Where the proceeding is in behalf of an infant of the age of fourteen years or over the infant shall join therein.
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Section 1712 ("1712By whom maintainable") is part of the New York Consolidated Laws, the codified statutory law of New York. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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