6-5.7 - Posthumous Children

NY Est Pow & Trusts L § 6-5.7 (2019) (N/A)
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(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.