Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act § 2225. Determination of distributees, devisees, legatees, beneficiaries and distributive and beneficial shares., NY CLS SCPA § 2225
Summary
In any proceeding where the court is required to determine the distributees entitled to share in the estate under EPTL 4-1.1, or where a devisee, legatee or a beneficiary of a will or trust subject to the jurisdiction of the court is entitled to money or property upon the occurrence of a specified event, the petition may request the court as incidental thereto to adjudge that (a) a person who might otherwise be a distributee, devisee, legatee or beneficiary is dead or (b) that no distributees, devisees, legatees or beneficiaries other than those stated in the record exists. Citation shall issue to the person named and to unknown distributees or to unknown devisees, legatees or beneficiaries, if any. For the purposes of this section, a “specified event” shall be the time specified in the will or lifetime trust for the determination of the identity of the devisee, legatee, beneficiary or members of a class thereof entitled to share in the estate or trust property.