Title related items in the 2024 NYS Budget

Part “O” of the recently passed 2024 New York State Budget contains some items that are of interest to the title

insurance community. Entitled “The Heirs Property Protection and Deed Theft Prevention Act of 2024”, these

items are intended to address the increasingly publicized problems of theft of real property through either

forgery or fraud, the protection of heirs to real property from partition actions by non-family members, and also

would now permit “transfer on death” deeds in NYS.