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NY Real Prop Actions L § 904 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 904 - Permissible Defendants.

§  904.  Permissible  defendants.  The plaintiff, at his election, may   make defendant in the action:1. A tenant by the curtesy or for life or for  years,  of  the  entire   property, or whoever may be entitled to a contingent or vested remainder   or  reversion  in  the  entire  property,  or  a person having a lien or   interest which attaches to the entire property. A  person  specified  in   this subdivision who is not made a party is not affected by the judgment   in the action.2.  A  person  having  a lien on an undivided share or interest in the   property. The nature of the lien and the share or interest to  which  it   attaches shall be specified.3. An unknown person entitled to an estate or interest in the property   sold.  The  court shall provide for the protection of his rights, as far   as may be, as if he were known and had appeared.4. The state.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 905 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 905 - Complaint.

§  905.  Complaint.  The  complaint  shall  describe the property with   reasonable certainty, specify the rights, shares and  interests  therein   of  each  of the parties, as far as the same are known to the plaintiff,   and contain any other allegation required by statute. If a party, or the   share, right or interest of a party, be unknown to the plaintiff; or  if   a  share,  right  or  interest  be  uncertain  or  contingent; or if the   ownership of the inheritance depend upon an executory devise;  or  if  a   remainder  be  contingent, so that the party cannot be named; such facts   shall be stated in the complaint. The complaint shall state whether  the   parties own any other lands in common.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 907 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 907 - Trial of Title or Interest.

§  907.  Trial  of  title or interest. 1. The title or interest of any   party in the property may be put in issue. When  any  defendant,  not  a   tenant  in common or joint tenant with plaintiff, puts in issue title or   interest, all subsequent proceedings as to such defendant, including the   trial, judgment and execution, shall be the same as if it were an action   to recover real property.2. An issue of fact joined in the action is triable by a jury.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 911 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 911 - Ascertainment of Rights of Parties Before Interlocutory Judgment on Default or Admission or Where Party Is an Infant, Absentee or Unknown Defendant.

§  911.  Ascertainment  of  rights  of  parties  before  interlocutory   judgment on default or admission or where party is an  infant,  absentee   or unknown defendant.If  a  defendant  has  made  default  in appearing or pleading, or the   rights of the parties are not controverted, or a  party  be  an  infant,   absentee  or  unknown,  the court shall ascertain the rights, shares and   interests of the several parties in the  property,  by  a  reference  or   otherwise, before interlocutory judgment is rendered.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 913 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 913 - Inquiry as to Creditors.

§  913.  Inquiry  as to creditors. 1. Before an interlocutory judgment   for the sale of real property is rendered the court shall ascertain,  by   reference  or  otherwise,  whether there is any creditor not a party who   has a lien on the undivided share or interest of  any  party.  A  search   certified  by the clerk or by the clerk and register of the county where   the property is situated that there  is  no  such  outstanding  lien  is   sufficient proof of the absence of such creditor.2.  Where a reference is directed, the referee shall cause a notice to   be published once in  each  week  for  four  successive  weeks  in  such   newspaper  published  in  the  county  wherein  the  place  of  trial is   designated as shall be designated by the court directing said reference,   and also, where the court so directs, in a newspaper published  in  each   county  wherein  the  property  is situated, requiring each person not a   party to the action who, at the date of the order, had a lien  upon  any   undivided  share  or  interest  in  the  property,  to appear before the   referee at a specified place and on or before a specified day  to  prove   his  lien  and  the  true  amount  due or to become due to him by reason   thereof. The referee shall report to the court with all convenient speed   the name of each creditor whose lien  is  satisfactorily  proved  before   him,  the nature and extent of the lien, the date thereof and the amount   due or to become due thereupon.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 915 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 915 - Interlocutory Judgment.

§  915.  Interlocutory  judgment.  The  interlocutory  judgment  shall   determine the right, share or interest of each party in the property, as   far as the same has been ascertained.  Where the property  or  any  part   thereof  is  so  circumstanced  that  a partition thereof cannot be made   without great prejudice  to  the  owners,  the  interlocutory  judgment,   except  as  otherwise expressly prescribed in this article, shall direct   that the property or  the  part  so  circumstanced  be  sold  at  public   auction.  Otherwise, an interlocutory judgment in favor of the plaintiff   shall direct that partition be made between  the  parties  according  to   their  respective rights, shares and interests and shall designate three   reputable and disinterested freeholders as  commissioners  to  make  the   partition so directed.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 916 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 916 - Interlocutory Judgment Directing Partial Partition.

§  916.  Interlocutory judgment directing partial partition. Where the   right, share and interest of a  party  has  been  ascertained,  and  the   rights,  shares  or interests of the other parties as between themselves   remain unascertained, an interlocutory judgment for  a  partition  shall   direct  a  partition  as  between  the  party  whose  share  has been so   determined and the other parties to the action. Where the rights, shares   and interests of two or more parties  have  been  thus  ascertained  and   determined,  the  interlocutory  judgment  may also direct the partition   among them of a part of the property proportionate  to  their  aggregate   shares.    In  either  case,  the court, from time to time, as the other   rights,  shares  and  interests   are   ascertained,   may   render   an   interlocutory  judgment  directing the partition, in like manner, of the   remainder of the property.  Where an interlocutory judgment is  rendered   in  a case specified in this section, the court may direct the action to   be severed, and final judgment  to  be  rendered  with  respect  to  the   portion  of  the  property set apart to the parties whose rights, shares   and interests are determined, leaving the action to proceed  as  against   the  other parties with respect to the remainder of the property; and if   necessary, the court may direct that one of those parties be substituted   as plaintiff.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 917 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 917 - Interlocutory Judgment Directing Partition in Common.

§  917.  Interlocutory  judgment directing partition in common.  Where   two or more parties desire to enjoy their shares  in  common  with  each   other,  the interlocutory judgment may direct partition to be so made as   to set off to them  their  shares  of  the  real  property  partitioned,   without partition as between themselves, to be held by them in common.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 918 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 918 - Interlocutory Judgment Directing Sale or Exception of Lien or Dower Interest.

§  918.  Interlocutory judgment directing sale or exception of lien or   dower interest. 1. An interlocutory judgment directing the sale  of  the   property  may  direct that the premises sold shall be free from the lien   of every debt of a decedent, from whom the plaintiff's title is derived,   or of a decedent who, if living, should be a party to the action, except   debts which were a lien upon the  premises  before  the  death  of  such   decedent.2. Where a party has an existing right of dower in the entire property   directed  to  be  sold, at the time when an interlocutory judgment for a   sale is rendered in an action for partition, the court  shall  determine   whether the interests of all the parties require that the right of dower   should be excepted from the sale or that it should be sold. If a sale of   the property, including the right of dower, is directed, the interest of   the  party  entitled  to  the right of dower shall pass thereby; and the   purchaser, his heirs and assigns,  shall  hold  the  property  free  and   discharged from any claim by virtue of that right.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 919 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 919 - Interlocutory Judgment Directing Credit on Sale.

§  919. Interlocutory judgment directing credit on sale. The court, in   the interlocutory judgment for a sale, shall direct the terms of  credit   which may be allowed for any portion of the purchase-money.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 921 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 921 - Actual Partition.

§  921.  Actual  partition.  1.  The  commissioners  designated by the   interlocutory judgment shall forthwith  proceed  to  make  partition  as   directed  by  such  judgment,  unless  it appears to them that partition   thereof, or of a particular lot, tract or other portion thereof,  cannot   be made without great prejudice to the owners; in which case, they shall   make a written report of that fact to the court.2.  The  commissioners shall divide the property into distinct parcels   and allot the several parcels to the  respective  parties,  quality  and   quantity being relatively considered, according to the respective rights   and  interest  of  the  parties  as fixed by the interlocutory judgment.   They shall designate the several parcels by suitable monuments. They may   employ a surveyor, with the necessary assistants, to aid them.3. Where a party has a right of dower  in  the  property,  or  a  part   thereof,  which has not been admeasured, or has an estate by the curtesy   or for life or for years in an undivided  share  of  the  property,  the   commissioners may allot to that party his share without reference to the   duration of the estate. They may make partition of the share so allotted   to  that  party,  among the parties who are entitled to the remainder or   reversion thereof, to be enjoyed by them upon the determination  of  the   particular  estate,  where,  in the opinion of the commissioners, such a   partition can be made without prejudice to the rights of the parties.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 922 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 922 - Meeting of Commissioners; Report of Actual Partition; Confirming or Setting Aside Report.

§   922.   Meeting  of  commissioners;  report  of  actual  partition;   confirming or setting aside report. 1. All the commissioners shall  meet   together  in  the  performance of any of their duties, but the acts of a   majority so met are valid.   They shall make  a  full  report  of  their   proceedings,  under  their hands, specifying therein the manner in which   they have discharged their trust, describing the  property  divided  and   the  share  or  interest  in  a  share  allotted to each party, with the   quantity, courses and distances or other particular description of  each   share,  and  a description of the monuments; and specifying the items of   their charges.  Their  report  shall  be  acknowledged  or  proved,  and   certified,  in  like manner as a deed to be recorded, and shall be filed   in the office of the clerk.2. The court shall confirm or set aside the report, and, if necessary,   may appoint new commissioners.3. If the commissioners report that the property, or a particular lot,   tract or other portion thereof is  so  circumstanced  that  a  partition   thereof  cannot be made without great prejudice to the owners, the court   may render a supplemental interlocutory judgment reciting the facts  and   directing  that  the property or the distinct parcel so circumstanced be   sold.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 923 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 923 - Security for Credit on Sale.

§  923. Security for credit on sale. The portion of the purchase-money   for which credit is allowed  in  the  interlocutory  judgment  shall  be   secured at interest by a mortgage upon the property sold, with a bond of   the  purchaser;  and  by  such additional security, if any, as the court   prescribes. The officer making the sale may take separate mortgages  and   other  securities  in  the name of the county treasurer of the county in   which the property is situated  for  such  convenient  portions  of  the   purchase-money  as  are directed by the court to be invested; and in the   name of the owner, for the share of any known  owner  of  full  age  who   desires to have it invested.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 925 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 925 - Report of Sale; Confirmation.

§  925.  Report of sale; confirmation. 1. Immediately after completing   the sale, the officer making it shall file with  the  clerk  his  report   thereof  under  oath,  containing a description of each parcel sold, the   name of the purchaser and the price.2. The court shall confirm or set aside the report.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 927 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 927 - Contents of Judgment After Actual Partition.

§   927.  Contents  of  judgment  after  actual  partition.  Upon  the   confirmation by the court of the  report  of  the  commissioners  making   partition,  final  judgment  shall be entered directing that each of the   parties who is entitled to possession of a distinct parcel  allotted  to   him,  be  let  into the possession thereof, either immediately, or after   the determination of the particular estate, as the case requires.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 928 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 928 - Effect of Judgment After Actual Partition.

§  928.  Effect  of  judgment after actual partition. A final judgment   after actual partition is binding  and  conclusive  upon  the  following   persons, except parties and persons claiming under them whose rights and   interests are expressly left unaffected:1.  The  plaintiff;  each  defendant upon whom the summons was served,   either personally or without the state or by publication; and his  legal   representatives.2.  Each person claiming from, through or under such a party, by title   accruing after the filing of the judgment-roll, or after the  filing  in   the  proper  county  clerk's  office  of a notice of the pendency of the   action.3. Each person  not  in  being  when  the  interlocutory  judgment  is   rendered  who,  by  the  happening of any contingency becomes afterwards   entitled to a beneficial interest attaching to, or an estate or interest   in, a portion of the property, the person first entitled  to  which,  or   other virtual representative whereof, was a party specified in the first   subdivision of this section.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 929 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 929 - Lien of Creditor Upon Share Partitioned.

§ 929. Lien of creditor upon share partitioned. After actual partition   the  lien  of a creditor having a lien on an undivided share or interest   in the property, who is or is not made a party, shall attach only to the   share or interest assigned to the party upon whose share or interest the   lien attached; which shall be first charged with its just proportion  of   the costs and expenses of the action, in preference to the lien.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 931 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 931 - Contents of Judgment After Sale.

§  931. Contents of judgment after sale. A final judgment confirming a   sale  shall  direct  the  officer  making  it  to  execute  the   proper   conveyances  and  take  the  proper securities pursuant to the sale, and   also direct application of the proceeds.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 933 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 933 - Effect of Judgment After Sale.

§  933.  Effect of judgment after sale. A final judgment after sale is   binding and conclusive upon the same persons upon whom a final  judgment   for  actual  partition  is  binding  and conclusive; and it bars each of   those persons who is not a purchaser at the sale from all  right,  title   and interest in the property sold.  It is also a bar against each person   not  a  party who, at the time when it is entered, has a general lien by   judgment or decree on the undivided share or interest  of  a  party,  if   notice  was  given to appear before the referee and make proof of liens,   as prescribed in this article, and also against each person made a party   who then has a specific lien on any such undivided  share  or  interest;   but  a  person  having any such specific lien appearing of record at the   time of the filing of the notice of the pendency of the action,  who  is   not made a party, is not affected by such judgment.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 941 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 941 - Judgment as to Parties Having Interest in Entire Property.

§  941. Judgment as to parties having interest in entire property.  If   a tenant by the curtesy or for life or for years of the entire property,   or a person entitled to a contingent or vested remainder or reversion in   the entire property, or a creditor, or other person, having  a  lien  or   interest  which  attaches to the entire property, be made a defendant in   the action, the final judgment either may award  to  such  a  party  his   entire  right  and interest, or the proceeds thereof, or where the right   or interest is contingent, direct that the proceeds or share thereof  be   substituted  for the property and invested for whoever may eventually be   entitled thereto, or may reserve and  leave  unaffected  his  right  and   interest, or any portion thereof.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 943 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 943 - Judgment Directing Compensation to Equalize Partition.

§  943.  Judgment directing compensation to equalize partition.  Where   it appears that partition cannot  be  made  equal  between  the  parties   according  to their respective rights without prejudice to the rights or   interests of some of them, the final judgment may award compensation  to   be  made  by  one  party  to  another  for  equality of partition.   But   compensation cannot be so awarded against a  party  who  is  unknown  or   whose name is unknown. Nor can it be awarded against an infant unless it   appears  that he has personal property sufficient to pay it and that his   interests will be promoted thereby.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 945 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 945 - Judgment Adjusting Rents and Profits.

§  945. Judgment adjusting rents and profits. The court may adjust the   rights of a party as against any other party by reason of the receipt by   the latter of more than his proper proportion of the rents or profits of   a share.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 947 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 947 - Judgment Affecting State Tax Claim.

§  947.  Judgment  affecting  state  tax  claim.  A judgment affecting   adversely the title, interest or claim of the state  based  upon  a  tax   deed, shall provide in effect as follows:1.  That  the  state shall have a lien upon such real property or part   thereof described in such tax deed, prior  and  superior  to  all  other   liens,  (a)  for  the amount of the unpaid taxes not adjudged illegal in   such action for which such real property was sold or liable to  be  sold   in  the  first instance and for which such tax deed was issued, together   with fees, charges and interest; (b) for the amount of the unpaid  taxes   not  adjudged  illegal  in  such action for which such real property was   subsequently sold or liable to be sold, together with fees, charges  and   interest;  (c) for the amount of all taxes, fees and charges admitted or   paid by the state upon such real property to the date of  the  entry  of   such  judgment,  together  with  interest  thereon from the date of such   admission or payment. In the determination of the amount of  such  lien,   establishment  of  payments  of  taxes  on  said land by the adjudged or   admitted owner of the property during any of the  same  years  in  which   payments  were also made by the state shall reduce the lien of the state   by the larger of the two tax payments for each of the years affected  by   duplicate payments, and in the event that wholly identical areas are not   affected  by  the  duplicate  payments  the  court  shall  have power to   apportion and adjust the amount of the lien as equity may require.2. That the state may foreclose  such  lien  as  a  mortgage  on  real   property  is  foreclosed,  provided  such  lien remains unpaid after the   expiration of one year from the entry of such judgment.The remedy provided by this section for recovery of tax payments shall   be in addition to any other remedy now or hereafter available in law  or   in equity.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 951 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 951 - Recording of Judgment.

§  951.  Recording of judgment. A copy, which is certified as correct,   of the final judgment may be recorded in the office for recording  deeds   in each county in which any real property affected is situated.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 961 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 961 - Disposition of Proceeds of Sale.

§  961. Disposition of proceeds of sale. The proceeds of a sale, after   deducting the costs  and  expenses  chargeable  against  them  shall  be   immediately  awarded  as  directed by the final judgment, to the parties   whose rights and interests have been sold, in  proportion  thereto.  The   sum chargeable upon any share to satisfy a lien thereon shall be paid to   the  creditor,  or  retained, subject to the order of the court; and the   remainder except as otherwise prescribed in this article, shall be  paid   by  the  officer  making  the sale, to the party owning the share or his   legal representatives or into court for his use.    The  proceedings  to   ascertain  and settle the liens upon an undivided share shall not affect   any other party to the action or delay the paying over or  investing  of   money  to  or  for  the  benefit  of any other party upon whose share or   interest in the property there does not appear to be any existing lien.