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Aug 4, 2023 · Legislation to amend the Power of Attorney law passed the New York State Assembly and Senate in 2020 and was delivered to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who signed it into law, effective June 13, 2021. The governor’s signing memo indicated there would be a chapter amendment that had been agreed on by the governor and the Legislature.
Jan 18, 2021 · The new law also contains several technical amendments which expand an agent’s power to make aggregate gifts in a calendar year from the current $500 limit to $5,000 without requiring a modification to the form; clarify an agent’s obligation to keep records or keep receipts; and clarify the agent’s authority with regard to financial matters related to health care.
- Allowance For Substantially Compliant Language
- Sanctions For Unreasonable Refusal to Accept A Valid Poa
- Safe Harbor For Third Parties Acting in Good Faith and Without Actual Knowledge
- Elimination of The Statutory Gift Rider
- Expand Agent’S Authority Regarding Health Care
- Limited Impact on Many Commercial Transactions
- Additional Technical Changes
- Effect of New Law on Prior Powers of Attorney
Under the prior law, a power of attorney that deviated from the exact wording of the form provided in the prior statute was invalid. In practice, this led many institutions to refuse to accept any power of attorney form except their own. It also led to the rejection of forms that had only insignificant deviations from the statutory language, and un...
Under the old law, there was no effective sanction against a third party that refused to accept a valid power of attorney. Although an aggrieved principal or agent could commence a special proceeding seeking injunctive relief, doing so was cumbersome and expensive, and was rarely done. A court may now award damages, including reasonable attorney's ...
While imposing liability for the unreasonable refusal to accept a valid POA, the new law also creates a safe harbor under which the recipient of a POA will be insulated from liability and held harmless if the recipient acts in good faith when accepting the POA, even if the POA is later determined to be invalid. To fall within the safe harbor, certa...
Under the old law, the power of attorney was a multi-part document that encompasses both the power of attorney form and an optional statutory gift rider (“SGR”) that was required to be separately executed if the principal wished to authorize the agent to make gifts of the principal’s money or any other property (such as real estate). The two docume...
The new statute greatly expands the principal’s ability to grant authority over financial matters relating to health care. The new law allows a principal to authorize an agent to: 1. handle the principal’s benefit entitlements and payment obligations; 2. receive HIPAA protected health information from “health care providers” and “health plans,” in ...
The new law is applicable to personal banking/financial transactions, i.e., consumer banking/financial transactions. Per N.Y. Gen. Oblig. Law § 5-1501C (Powers of attorney excluded from this title), the statute is inapplicable to: 1. A power of attorney given primarily for a business or commercial purpose; 2. A power of attorney to the extent coupl...
The new law makes other technical changes, including the following: 1. a third party may sign at the direction of a person who is physically unable to sign; and 2. there are new record keeping requirements for agents.
According to the new law, a power of attorney, and any optional SGR, valid at the time executed by the principal, will remain valid even after the effective date of the new law (June 13, 2021), pro...
Jan 20, 2021 · Category. On December 15, 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation to amend the New York Power of Attorney Law, Sections 5-1501 through 5-1514 of the General Obligations Law, such changes to take effect on June 13, 2021. Title 15 of Article 5 of the General Obligations Law establishes a “statutory short form power of attorney” by ...
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Jun 16, 2021 · Changes to the New York State Power of Attorney Law are now in effect as of June 13, 2021. On December 15, 2020, changes to the New York General Obligations Law in relation to the statutory short form Power of Attorney were signed into law, with the effective date of June 13, 2021. The new law will substantially change the format and ...
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Jan 22, 2021 · Logically, the revisions to the New York Statutory Short Form POA and certain provisions of Sections 5-1501 through 5-1514 of the General Obligations Law (GOL), which will be effective for all POAs signed on or after June 13, 2021, [1] are intended to simplify the current POA as it has been deemed “prone to improper execution.”
