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2012 New York Consolidated Laws
RPP - Real Property
Article 6 - (189 - 207) DOWER AND CURTESY
200 - Election between devise and dower.
NY Real Prop L § 200 (2012) What's This?
§ 200. Election between devise and dower. If real property is devised to a woman, or a pecuniary or other provision is made for her by will in lieu of her dower, she must make her election whether she will take the property so devised, or the provisions so made, or be endowed of the lands of her husband; but she is not entitled to both.
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