Payment of debts and application of property

N.Y. Correction Law § 322, under Care of Property of Person Confined For Life.

N.Y. Correction Law § 322

§ 322. Payment of debts and application of property. The court shall direct the payment of the debts of such convicted person from said property, and may also in its discretion direct the application of the income, and if need be, of the principal of such property, to the support, education and maintenance of such persons as the said convicted person would be legally liable to support if he had not been so convicted. Or the court may direct the care and preservation of the income and principal of such estate until the natural death of the person so convicted.