NY State — NY Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law

§ 1712 — SECTION 1712 By whom maintainable

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What is NY RPAPL § 1712?

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This section outlines the individuals who are authorized to maintain a special proceeding regarding real property. It includes guardians, committees, conservators, relatives, and individuals aged fourteen or older acting on their own behalf. Applies to those involved in legal matters concerning infants, incompetent persons, or conservatees.

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§ 1712 SECTION 1712 By whom maintainable

RPAPL § 1712

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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