New York Estates, Powers & Trusts Law Part 4 - RIGHTS OF MEMBERS OF FAMILY RESULTING FROM WRONGFUL ACT, NEGLECT OR DEFAULT CAUSING DEATH OF DECEDENT

• 5-4.1 - Action by Personal Representative for Wrongful Act, Neglect or Default Causing Death of Decedent
  5-4.1 Action by personal representative for wrongful act, neglect or default causing death of decedent 1. The personal representative, duly appointed in this state or...
• 5-4.2 - Trial and Burden of Proof of Contributory Negligence
  5-4.2 Trial and burden of proof of contributory negligence On the trial of an action accruing before September first, nineteen hundred seventy-five to recover damages...
• 5-4.3 - Amount of Recovery
  5-4.3 Amount of recovery (a) The damages awarded to the plaintiff may be such sum as the jury or, where issues of fact are tried...
• 5-4.4 - Distribution of Damages Recovered
  5-4.4 Distribution of damages recovered (a) The damages, as prescribed by 5-4.3, whether recovered in an action or by settlement without an action, are exclusively...
• 5-4.5 - Non-Marital Children
  5-4.5 Non-marital children For the purposes of this part, a non-marital child is the distributee of his father and paternal kindred and the father and...
• 5-4.6 - Application to Compromise Action
  5-4.6 Application to compromise action (a) Within sixty days of the application of an administrator appointed under 5-4.1 or a personal representative to the court...

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