Matter of Patrick BB

In Matter of Patrick BB. (284 AD2d 636), Patrick, a developmentally disabled man, inherited approximately $ 20,000, and an application was made, inter alia, to establish a "13.29" fund with the inheritance. The Court held that the statute: "regulates the receipt and management of property in the form of 'gifts, devises, bequests, grants, powers, or trusts' of property essentially 'made to the state' for the use of petitioner or its facilities. Supreme Court's order did not 'gift' respondent's inheritance to the State. Clearly, the inheritance remained patient property. Thus, we find Mental Hygiene Law 13.29 (a) inapplicable in the instant case" (Matter of Patrick BB., supra at 638).