In Riggs v. Palmer (115 NY 506 [1889]) the Court of Appeals articulated the long-accepted principle that "[n]o one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or to take advantage of his own wrong, or to found any claim upon his own inequity, or to acquire property by his own crime." The rule in Riggs v. Palmer is generally applied in cases where one intentionally murders another person or causes the death of another person by some felonious or other intentional or reckless criminal conduct, and as a result the perpetrator is not entitled to share in the decedent's estate. The rule set forth in Riggs v. Palmer has been expanded to those instances where the party seeking to inherit has been convicted of manslaughter with regard to the decedent's death.