NYLE Study Guide 2026

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📋 NYLE Exam Format at a Glance

50
Questions
120 min
Time Limit
60.00%
Passing Score

📚 NYLE Topics to Study (95)

✍️ Sample NYLE Questions & Answers

1. Under New York law, which of the following best describes 'loss of consortium'?
A derivative claim by a spouse for loss of companionship, services, and society due to the other spouse's injuries

Loss of consortium is a derivative claim by a spouse for deprivation of companionship, services, and society caused by the tortfeasor's negligent injury to the other spouse.

2. Under New York SCPA 1001, who has priority to serve as administrator of an intestate estate?
The surviving spouse, then children, then grandchildren, then parents, then siblings

SCPA 1001 establishes a priority list for appointment as administrator: surviving spouse, children, grandchildren, father/mother, siblings, and other eligible persons.

3. Procedural due process under the Fourteenth Amendment is triggered when the government seeks to deprive a person of:
A protected liberty or property interest

Procedural due process applies when the government seeks to deprive an individual of a life, liberty, or property interest recognized by the Constitution or state law.

4. Under the doctrine of frustration of purpose, a contract may be discharged when:
The principal purpose of the contract is substantially frustrated by an unforeseen event

Frustration of purpose (Restatement §265) excuses performance when an unforeseen event substantially destroys the value of the contract to the non-breaching party.

5. Under New York's Limited Liability Company Law, absent any provision to the contrary in the operating agreement, how are profits and losses allocated among LLC members by default?
In proportion to each member's capital contribution to the LLC

NY LLC Law § 503 provides that, in the absence of a governing provision in the operating agreement, profits and losses are shared in proportion to the agreed value of each member's contribution to the LLC. This default rule ties economic benefit to economic investment rather than awarding equal shares.

6. A New York attorney's client is also a close personal friend. The client asks the attorney to prepare a will that leaves a substantial bequest to the attorney. Under NY RPC 1.8(c), this is:
Prohibited unless the client is represented by independent counsel in making the gift

NY RPC 1.8(c) prohibits an attorney from drafting an instrument giving the attorney or a related person a substantial gift from a client unless the client is related to the donee and the client has independent counsel review the arrangement.

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