N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 2222-A (2026)

§ 2222-a. Notice of legacy or distributive share payable to incarcerated
            individual or prisoner
  Where the legatee, distributee or beneficiary is an incarcerated
individual serving a sentence of imprisonment with the state department
of corrections and community supervision or a prisoner confined at a
local correctional facility, the court shall give prompt written notice
to the office of victim services, and at the same time direct that no
payment be made to such incarcerated individual or prisoner for a period
of thirty days following the date of entry of the order containing such
direction.