New York Consolidated Laws, Correction Law - COR § 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.