2016 New York Laws
RPA - Real Property Actions & Proceedings
Article 10 - (Real Property Actions & Proceedings) ACTION FOR DOWER
1062 - Plaintiff may recover sum awarded; court may modify judgment.

  1062. Plaintiff may recover sum awarded; court may modify judgment.
  The plaintiff may, from time to time, maintain  an  action  against  the
  owner,  or  a  person  who was the owner of the property, to recover any
  instalment of the sum, so awarded to her for her dower, which became due
  during his ownership, and remains unpaid. Or, if an  instalment  remains
  due  and  unpaid,  she  may  maintain an action to procure a sale of the
  property, and enforce the payment of the instalments, due and to  become
  due,  out  of the proceeds of the sale. Such an action must be conducted
  as if the charge upon the real property  was  a  mortgage  to  the  same
  effect.    If,  at  any time, it is made to appear to the court that the
  rental  value  of  the  real  property  has  materially   increased   or
  diminished,  the  court  may, by an order, to be made upon notice to all
  the persons interested, modify  the  final  judgment  by  increasing  or
  diminishing the sum to be paid to the plaintiff.