Definition of LETTERS TESTAMENTARY: (noun) / under New York law, the name of the official document appointing a person named in the will to act as the representative (executor) of an estate where the decedent has died testate (with a will)
Letters Testamentary are issued by the Surrogate’s Court after the appropriate petition is filed and approved.
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