NY EPTL 5-4.5 Non-Marital Children

This post is part of the NY wrongful death statutory corpus. For the Part 4 hub, see: NY EPTL Part 4 (Wrongful Death).

§ 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 paternal kindred of a non-marital child are that child's distributees to the extent permitted by 4-1.2.

What 5-4.5 Does

Function: Incorporates the non-marital child rules (via cross-reference to 4-1.2) into wrongful death “distributee” status for Part 4 purposes.