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2014 New York Laws
EPT - Estates, Powers & Trusts
Article 6 - CLASSIFICATION, CREATION, DEFINITION OF, AND RULES GOVERNING ESTATES IN PROPERTY
Part 5 - (6-5.1 - 6-5.12) RULES GOVERNING FUTURE ESTATES
6-5.7 - Posthumous children

NY Est Pow & Trusts L § 6-5.7 (2014) What's This?
6-5.7 Posthumous children

(a)  Where a future estate is limited to children, distributees, heirs
  or issue, posthumous children are entitled to take in the same manner as
  if living at the death of their ancestors.

(b)    A  future estate conditioned upon the death of a person without
  children, distributees, heirs or issue is defeated by  the  birth  of  a
  child conceived before but born alive after the death of such person.

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