In 1990 the New York State Senate and Assembly, by joint resolution, created the Advisory Committee to the Legislature on EPTL and SCPA, for which I was selected as chair.
It consisted of 12 members, three each selected by the Senate Majority Leader, the Speaker, the State Surrogate’s Association and the State Bar Trusts and Estates Section. It was our charge to review the Estates, Powers & Trusts Law and Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act for the purposes of bringing them up to date, as it was more than 25 years since the Bennett Commission submitted its reports that brought the two statutes into being. In keeping with the responsibilities that the Bennett Commission undertook, we were to revise, modernize and simplify the acts.
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