All actions pending against any person at the time of that person's death, that by law may survive against the personal representative, shall be considered demands legally filed against the estate at the time of the filing with the clerk of the court in which the estate is being administered of a copy in duplicate of the order of revivor, one (1) of which copies shall be certified or attested, a notation of which shall be entered by the clerk in the record of claims, as in the case of other claims filed. Pending actions not so revived against the personal representative within the period prescribed in § 30-2-307(a) shall abate.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 30 - Administration of Estates
Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution
Part 3 - Inventory and Management
§ 30-2-301. Making Inventory — Return — Notice to Beneficiaries
§ 30-2-302. Recording of Inventory
§ 30-2-303. Sale of Decedent's Effects
§ 30-2-305. Debts Chargeable Against All Assets
§ 30-2-306. Notice to Creditors of Qualification of Personal Representative
§ 30-2-308. Triplicate Copies of Pleadings as Claims
§ 30-2-309. Statute of Limitations Arrested by Filing Claim
§ 30-2-311. Waiver of Filing Small Claims — Payment
§ 30-2-312. Entry of Claim by Clerk — Fees — Notice
§ 30-2-316. Judgment on Claims Where No Exceptions Filed
§ 30-2-317. Priority of Claims — Payment — Contested or Unmatured Claims
§ 30-2-318. Payment of Claims Prior to Time Fixed for Payment
§ 30-2-319. Time for Payment of Claims
§ 30-2-320. Pending Actions Considered Legally Filed Demands — Manner of Revival