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2016 New York Laws
RPP - Real Property
Article 6 - (Real Property) DOWER AND CURTESY
196-A - When dower barred by dissolution of marriage.
NY Real Prop L § 196-A (2016) What's This?
196-a. When dower barred by dissolution of marriage. In case of a dissolution of the marriage because of the absence of the wife for five successive years, as provided in section seven-a of the domestic relations law, she shall not be endowed.
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