New York Breach Of Fiduciary Duty Statute of Limitations

How the limitation period applies

The controlling primary authority for New York statute of limitations for breach of fiduciary duty (CPLR 213(1) six-year catch-all vs. CPLR 214(4) three-year for money damages) is N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 213.

N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 213. The following actions must be commenced within six years: 1. an action for which no limitation is specifically prescribed by law

Related statutes

N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 214(4) — Actions to be commenced within three years

an action to recover damages for an injury to property except as provided in section 214-c

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Sources

• N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 213 — Actions to be commenced within six years: where not otherwise provided for; on contract; on sealed instrument; on bond or note, and mortgage upon real property; by state based on misappropriation of public property; based on mistake; by corporation against director, officer or stockholder; based on fraud
• N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 214(4) — Actions to be commenced within three years

All sources are official primary law published by newyork.public.law.

Corroboration method: Verbatim text of CPLR 213 (opening clause plus subsection (1)) was retrieved twice from newyork.public.law and returned identical language across both fetches. The cloudflare-gated official text at nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/CVP/213 could not be retrieved in-session; the public.law mirror is a verbatim consolidated-laws mirror and was used as the primary source. CPLR 214(4) was independently retrieved once and matches the long-published statutory text.