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NY Real Prop Actions L § 962 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 962 - Payment of Proceeds Into Court Where There Are Liens.

§  962. Payment of proceeds into court where there are liens. If there   is any existing lien upon the share  or  interest  of  a  party  in  the   property, the interlocutory judgment directing the sale shall direct the   officer  making  it  to  pay into court the portion of the money arising   from the sale of the share or interest of that party after deducting the   portion of the costs and expenses for which it is liable.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 963 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 963 - Payment of Proceeds Out of Court Where There Are Liens.

§  963.  Payment  of  proceeds out of court where there are liens.  1.   Where the proceeds of a sale are paid into court, in a case specified in   section 962, the party may apply to the court  for  an  order  directing   that the money, or such part as he claims, be paid to him, and the court   shall  make  such  an  order  as  justice  requires.  The party shall by   affidavit show the amount actually due on each incumbrance, and the name   and residence of the owner of the incumbrance, as far as they are  known   or  can  be  ascertained  with  due  diligence, and showing service of a   notice of the application on each owner of an  incumbrance.  Service  of   the  notice  within the state shall be personal, or by leaving it at the   owner's residence with some person of suitable age  and  discretion,  at   least  fourteen  days  previous  to the application. Service without the   state, if personal, shall be made at least twenty days previous  to  the   application.  If the owner of the incumbrance resides without the state,   and the place  of  his  abode  cannot  be  ascertained  with  reasonable   diligence,  notice  may  be  served  on  him  by  publishing  it in such   newspaper or newspapers as the court may direct, once in each  week  for   the four weeks immediately preceding the application.2.  When  the  whole amount of the unsatisfied liens upon an undivided   share has been ascertained, the court shall order  the  portion  of  the   money  so  paid  into  court  on account of that share to be distributed   among the creditors having the liens, according to the priority of  each   of  them. Where the incumbrancer is not a party to the action, the clerk   or other officer by whom a lien is paid off shall  procure  satisfaction   to  be  acknowledged  or proved, as required by law, and shall cause the   incumbrance to be duly satisfied or cancelled of record. The expense  of   so  doing  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  portion  of the money in court   belonging to the party by whom the incumbrance was payable.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 964 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 964 - Payment of Proceeds Into Court in Cases Involving Decedent's Property.

§  964.  Payment  of proceeds into court in cases involving decedent's   property.  Where the property has been sold free from the lien of debts,   a final judgment, entered before eighteen months have elapsed  from  the   granting  of  letters of administration or letters testamentary upon the   estate of a decedent from whom the plaintiff derived  his  title,  shall   direct  that the proceeds of the sale remaining after the payment of the   costs, referee's fees, expenses of sale, and  liens  established  before   the  death  of  the  decedent,  including  any sum allowed to a widow in   satisfaction of her right of dower, therein directed to be paid, be paid   forthwith into court by the referee making such sale.A final judgment in such case, entered  before  eighteen  months  have   elapsed  from  the  granting  of  letters  of  administration or letters   testamentary upon the estate of  a  deceased  person,  who,  if  living,   should  be  a  party  to  the action, shall direct that the share of the   proceeds of such sale, which would have been his,  if  living,  be  paid   into court by such referee.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 965 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 965 - Payment of Proceeds Out of Court in Cases Involving Decedent's Property.

§  965. Payment of proceeds out of court in cases involving decedent's   property. Money paid into court under section 964 may  be  paid  out  of   court to such parties as are entitled thereto by order of the court made   upon motion of any party, and upon:1. Notice of motion to the executors or administrators of the decedent   and  the furnishing of an undertaking that the moving party will pay any   and all claims, not exceeding the amount paid into court, when  required   by  order  of  the court or by order of the surrogate of the surrogate's   court in a proceeding to mortgage, lease or sell the  real  property  of   such  decedent; except that where a final accounting has been had in the   estate of such decedent in a surrogate's court, and certified copies  of   the  account  and  decree  of  final settlement, showing that all of the   debts of the decedent have been paid in full, is filed  with  the  court   having  jurisdiction  of  the  fund,  the  court  may  dispense with the   furnishing of an undertaking; or2. The furnishing of the certificate of the surrogate of the county of   which any such decedent was a resident at the time of his death, showing   that  eighteen  months  have  elapsed  since  the  issuing  of   letters   testamentary  or letters of administration, as the case may be, upon the   estate of said decedent, and that no proceedings for the mortgage, lease   or sale of the real property of such decedent for  the  payment  of  his   debts  or  funeral expenses, or both, is pending, and the certificate of   the county clerk of the county where the real property  sold  under  the   interlocutory judgment is located, showing that no notice of pendency of   action  in  respect  to such real property has been filed in his office.   The certificate of the surrogate required herein may be executed in  the   name  of  the  surrogate by the clerk of the surrogate's court under the   seal of the court.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 966 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 966 - Payment of Proceeds Directly to Parties in Cases Involving Decedent's Property.

§  966.  Payment  of  proceeds  directly to parties in cases involving   decedent's property. Where the property has been sold free from the lien   of debts and the court is furnished with the certificates  described  in   subdivision 2 of section 965, the final judgment shall direct payment of   the proceeds of sale to such parties as are entitled thereto.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 967 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 967 - Payment of Proceeds to Owner of Particular or Future Estate.

§  967. Payment of proceeds to owner of particular or future estate. A   party who has a right of dower, or is a tenant for life or for years, in   or of an undivided share of the property sold, or has an inchoate  right   of  dower  or any other future right or estate, vested or contingent, or   any person not in being who by any contingency may  become  entitled  to   any  interest  or  estate  in  the  property sold, is entitled to have a   proportion of the proceeds of the sale invested, secured or  paid  over,   in  such  manner as the court deems calculated to protect the rights and   interests of the parties.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 968 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 968 - Manner of Payment of Proceeds to Owner of Particular or Future Estate.

§  968. Manner of payment of proceeds to owner of particular or future   estate. Whenever the  whole  or  a  part  of  the  proceeds  of  a  sale   represents  the interest of a particular estate, and also represents one   or more other interests  subsequent  thereto,  the  power  to  determine   whether   the   owner   of  the  particular  estate  shall  receive,  in   satisfaction of his estate or interest, a sum in gross or shall  receive   the  earnings,  as  they  accrue,  of  a sum invested for his benefit in   permanent securities at interest, rests in the discretion of the  court,   except  that  if  all  parties  affected shall have agreed either to the   payment of a sum in gross or the investment of the  proceeds  the  court   shall,  by  order, give effect to such agreement. The application of the   owner of any such particular estate for the award  of  a  sum  in  gross   shall  be  granted  unless the court finds that unreasonable hardship is   likely to be caused thereby to the owner of some other interest  in  the   affected  real property. The application for the award of a sum in gross   by the owner of some interest in the affected real property  other  than   the  owner  of the particular estate shall be granted if the court finds   that  the  granting  of  such  application  is   equitable   under   the   circumstances.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 970 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 970 - Shares of Unknown or Absent Owner.

§ 970. Shares of unknown or absent owner. Where a person has been made   a  defendant  as  an unknown person, or where the name of a defendant is   unknown, or where the summons has been served upon a  defendant  without   the  state or by publication, and he has not appeared in the action, the   court shall direct his portion to be paid into  court  and  invested  in   permanent  securities at interest, for his benefit, until claimed by him   or his legal representatives.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 971 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 971 - Security for Refund.

§  971. Security for refund. The court, in its discretion, may require   any person, before he receives his portion of the proceeds of  the  sale   to  give  such  security  as  it  directs,  to  the state, or the county   treasurer, who shall hold it for the use  and  benefit  of  the  persons   interested,  or  to  such  parties or other persons as it prescribes, to   refund the same, or a portion thereof, with interest, if  it  thereafter   appears that he was not entitled thereto.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 973 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 973 - Report of Disposition of Proceeds.

§  973. Report of disposition of proceeds. Within sixty days after the   entry of final judgment, unless such time be extended by an order of the   court entered in the office of the clerk within  said  sixty  days,  the   officer  making the sale shall file with the clerk his report under oath   of the disposition of the proceeds  of  the  sale,  accompanied  by  the   vouchers of the persons to whom payments were ordered to be made.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 981 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 981 - Costs and Expenses.

§  981. Costs and expenses. 1. The final judgment for the partition of   the property must also award that each defendant pay  to  the  plaintiff   his  proportion  of  the  plaintiff's  costs,  including  the additional   allowance. The sum to be paid  by  each  must  be  fixed  by  the  court   according  to the respective rights of the parties, and specified in the   judgment.2. If a defendant is unknown, his proportion of  the  costs  shall  be   fixed  and  specified  in  like  manner. An execution against an unknown   defendant may be issued to collect the costs awarded against him  as  if   he  were  named in the judgment; and his right, share or interest in the   property may be sold by virtue thereof  as  if  he  were  named  in  the   execution.3.  Where  final  judgment confirming a sale is rendered, the costs of   each party to the action and the expenses of  the  sale,  including  the   officer's  fees,  shall  be  deducted  from the proceeds of the sale and   distributed as the court shall order. But the court, in its  discretion,   may  direct that the costs and expenses of any trial, reference or other   proceeding in the action be paid out of the share of any  party  in  the   proceeds,  or  may  render  judgment against any party therefor. Where a   proportion of the proceeds is to be paid to or invested for the  benefit   of  any  person,  as  prescribed  in  any provision of this article, the   amount thereof must be determined by the residue of the entire  proceeds   remaining  after  deducting  the  costs  and expenses chargeable against   them.4. The officer making the sale shall pay out of the  proceeds,  unless   the  judgment otherwise directs, all taxes, assessments and water rates,   which are liens upon the property sold, and  redeem  the  property  sold   from  any sales for unpaid taxes, assessments or water rates, which have   not apparently  become  absolute.  The  sums  necessary  to  make  those   payments and redemptions are deemed expenses of the sale.5. After actual partition, the fees and expenses of the commissioners,   including  the expense of a survey when it is made, shall be taxed under   the direction of the court, and the amount thereof shall be paid by  the   plaintiff and allowed as part of his costs.6.  Fees of surveyor or commissioner in action for partition. The fees   of a surveyor and a surveyor's assistant, employed as prescribed by  law   in  an  action  for  partition,  and  of  a  commissioner  appointed  as   prescribed by law to make partition, shall be the same as those provided   by section 1052 of this chapter for services rendered in an  action  for   dower.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 991 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 991 - Proceeding for Share of Unknown Heirs; Presumption of Death; Service.

§  991.  Proceeding  for share of unknown heirs; presumption of death;   service.  1. Where a portion of the proceeds of the sale  is  paid  into   court  for unknown heirs and is unclaimed by any person entitled thereto   for twenty-five years after such payment the unknown heirs are  presumed   to  have  been dead at the time of the sale. A special proceeding may be   commenced for the distribution of such proceeds to the persons  entitled   thereto.2.  The  notice  of  petition  and  petition  shall be served upon the   unknown heirs or their representatives, the known heirs, their  next  of   kin, representatives or distributees, and all persons interested in such   proceeds.  Service shall be made at least twenty days before the time at   which the petition is noticed to be heard. Each  of  the  known  persons   within  the state, and the comptroller of the state if any proceeds have   been paid over to him by a county treasurer, shall be served personally.   All other persons shall be served  in  the  manner  prescribed  for  the   service by publication of a summons.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 992 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 9 - Action for Partition 992 - Judgment in Proceeding for Share of Unknown Heirs.

§  992.  Judgment  in  proceeding for share of unknown heirs.  Unknown   heirs or their representatives not appearing shall be  barred  from  any   interest and the court shall render a judgment that the interest of such   unknown  heirs  was  vested in the known heirs of the ancestor from whom   the unknown heirs derived title and that the proceeds  be  paid  out  of   court to the persons entitled thereto.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1001 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1001 - Limitation of Action for Dower.

§ 1001. Limitation of action for dower. 1. An action for dower must be   commenced by a widow within two years after the death of her husband, if   the husband dies on or after April 6, 1954.2.  If the husband died before April 6, 1954, an action for dower must   be commenced by his widow within two years from April 6,  1954.  If  the   widow  had,  on April 6, 1954, less than two years under existing law in   which to bring an action  for  dower,  the  time  so  remaining  is  not   enlarged  by this section. Nothing herein contained shall revive a cause   of action barred on April 6, 1954.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1002 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1002 - Action Barred by Assignment of Dower.

§  1002.  Action  barred  by  assignment of dower. The acceptance by a   widow of an assignment of dower in satisfaction of her  claim  upon  the   property  in question bars an action for dower and may be pleaded by any   defendant.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1011 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1011 - Necessary Defendants.

§  1011.  Necessary  defendants.  Where the property in which dower is   claimed  is  actually  occupied,  the  occupant  thereof  must  be  made   defendant in the action. Where it is not so occupied, the action must be   brought  against  some person exercising acts of ownership thereupon, or   claiming title thereto, or an interest  therein,  at  the  time  of  the   commencement of the action.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1012 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1012 - Who May Be Joined as Defendants.

§  1012.  Who  may  be joined as defendants. 1. In either of the cases   specified in section 1011, any other person claiming title  to,  or  the   right  to the possession of, the real property in which dower is claimed   may be joined as defendant in the action.2. The people of the state of New York may be made a  party  defendant   in an action for dower where the people of the state of New York have an   interest  in  or  a  lien  upon  the lands affected thereby, in the same   manner as a private person. In such a case the summons  must  be  served   upon the attorney-general, who must appear in behalf of the people.  But   where the people of the state of New York are made a party defendant, as   herein provided, the complaint shall set forth, in addition to the other   matters  required,  detailed  facts showing the particular nature of the   interest in or the lien on the said real property of the people  of  the   state  of  New  York  and  the  reason  for  making  the  people a party   defendant.  Upon failure to state such  facts  the  complaint  shall  be   dismissed as to the people of the state of New York.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1013 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1013 - Actions Where Defendants Claim in Severalty.

§  1013.  Actions where defendants claim in severalty. In an action to   recover dower, in a distinct  parcel  of  real  property  of  which  the   plaintiff's  husband  died  seized, or in all the real property which he   aliened by one conveyance, all the persons in possession of, or claiming   title to, the property, or any part thereof,  may  be  made  defendants,   although  they  possess  or claim title to different portions thereof in   severalty.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1021 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1021 - Damages May Be Recovered; How Estimated.

§  1021.  Damages  may  be  recovered;  how  estimated.  Where a widow   recovers, in an action therefor, dower in property, of which her husband   died seized, she may also recover,  in  the  same  action,  damages  for   withholding her dower, to the amount of one-third of the annual value of   the  mesne profits of the property, with interest; to be computed, where   the action is against the heir, from her husband's death, or,  where  it   is  against  any other person, from the time when she demanded her dower   of the defendant; and in each  case,  to  the  time  of  the  trial,  or   application  for  judgment,  as  the  case may be; but not exceeding six   years in the whole. The damages shall not include any thing for the  use   of permanent improvements, made after the death of the husband.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1022 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1022 - Damages in Action Against Alienee of Husband.

§  1022.  Damages  in action against alienee of husband. Where a widow   recovers dower, in a case not specified in section 1021,  she  may  also   recover,  in  the  same action, damages for withholding her dower, to be   computed from the commencement of the action; but they shall not include   any thing for the use of permanent improvements, made since the property   was aliened by her husband. In all other  respects,  the  same  must  be   computed as prescribed in section 1021.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1023 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1023 - Damages Where Several Parcels Are Affected.

§  1023. Damages where several parcels are affected. Sections 1021 and   1022 do not authorize the recovery, against a defendant  who  is  joined   with  others,  of  damages  for withholding dower, in any portion of the   property not occupied or claimed by him.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1024 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1024 - Damages Apportioned Between Heir and Alienee.

§  1024.  Damages  apportioned between heir and alienee. Where a widow   recovers dower in real property aliened by the heir of her husband,  she   may  recover,  in  a  separate  action  against  him,  her  damages  for   withholding her dower, from the time of the death of her husband to  the   time  of  the  alienation, not exceeding six years in the whole. The sum   recovered from him must  be  deducted  from  the  sum  which  she  would   otherwise be entitled to recover from the grantee; and any sum recovered   as  damages  from  the grantee, must be deducted from the sum, which she   would otherwise be entitled to recover from the heir.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1025 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1025 - Damages Against Grantee of Premises Subject to Dower.

§  1025. Damages against grantee of premises subject to dower.  If the   defendant, in an action for dower, aliens the real property in  question   after  the  filing  of  a  notice of pendency of action and an execution   against him for the plaintiff's damages is  returned  wholly  or  partly   unsatisfied,  an  action  may be maintained by the plaintiff against any   person who has been in possession of the property under the  defendant's   conveyance,  to  recover  the  unsatisfied portion of the damages, for a   time not exceeding that during which he possessed the property.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1031 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 10 - Action for Dower 1031 - Complaint.

§  1031. Complaint. The complaint in an action for dower must describe   the property claimed with common certainty, by setting forth the name of   the township or tract and the number of the lot, if there is any, or  in   some  other appropriate manner, so that from the description, possession   of the property claimed may be delivered where the plaintiff is entitled   thereto, and must set forth the name of the plaintiff's husband.