Legal Question in Real Estate Law in New York

Re: Life Estate

Your message is a little confusing. It looks like you are saying that A transferred the property to B subject to a reserved life estate to allow A to live there until death, A and B are dead, and you have B's certificate of death but not A's. I presume you are B's heir.

If that's the case, then you need to track down A's death certificate. I assume that, if A became deceased in the City of New York, your attmpts at the New York City Health Department came up cold.

There are lawyers and non-lawyers alike who handle this kind of work. You should speak with one or more of them and see what it takes to obtain the death certificate. Good luck.

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