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Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 1501. Necessity for letters testamentary or of administration. - No one shall act as the executor or administrator of...
§ 1502. Grant of letters testamentary. - (a) If a will of a domiciliary or nondomiciliary decedent...
§ 1503. Grant of letters to one under an incapacity. - If a person named executor shall be under an incapacity,...
§ 1504. Grant of letters of administration. - (a) Letters of administration, with the will annexed, of the...
§ 1505. Persons entitled to letters of administration. - (a) Letters of administration with the will annexed, letters of...
§ 1506. Power of attorney by nondomiciliary executor or administrator. - In case of the grant of letters testamentary or of...
§ 1507. Successor administrator; personal representative of executor or administrator; administration during pendency of litigation. - (a) Upon the removal or resignation from office, or upon...
§ 1508. Persons not qualified to receive letters testamentary or of administration. - Letters testamentary, or of administration, shall not be granted to...
§ 1509. Oath of executor or administrator. - Every executor or administrator shall take and subscribe an oath,...
§ 1510. Personal representatives of deceased guardians. - Upon appointment, every executor or administrator of the estate of...
Subchapter II. Bond
§ 1521. Requirement. - Prior to receiving letters, a personal representative shall qualify by...
§ 1522. Exception to bond requirement. - No bond shall be required of a personal representative prior...
§ 1523. Amount; security; execution; excusing requirement. - If bond is required and the provisions of the will...
§ 1524. Demand that representative be bonded. - Any person apparently having an interest in the estate worth...
§ 1525. Conditions. - (a) The following requirements and provisions apply to any bond...
§ 1526. Objection to amount or condition. - If any interested person objects to the amount of the...
§ 1527. Liability for estate taxes and duties related thereto. - The bond of a personal representative shall be liable for...
§ 1528. Certificate of approval; preservation. - (a) The execution of the required bond shall be sufficient...
Subchapter III. Death, Removal or Discharge of Executor or Administrator
§ 1541. Removal for neglect of duties. - (a) If an executor or administrator neglects official duties, the...
§ 1542. Removal of executor or administrator upon subsequent probate of will. - If, after the grant of letters testamentary or the grant...
§ 1543. Rights of coexecutor, coadministrator or successor upon death or removal. - Whenever an executor or administrator is removed or dies before...
§ 1544. Commissions; allowance and apportionment. - When part of the effects of the deceased passes from...
§ 1545. Validity of acts of removed or deceased executor or administrator. - Any act done by an executor or administrator in the...
§ 1546. Refusal to deliver unadministered assets. - (a) If any executor or administrator who has been removed...
§ 1547. Discharge of executor or administrator upon petition; procedure; appeal. - (a) An executor or administrator may, by petition to the...
Subchapter IV. Life Interest in Personalty Where Will Appoints No Trustee to Administer
§ 1551. Appointment of trustee upon petition of executor or administrator; bond, duties and release of trustee. - (a) When any person, other than the person who during...
§ 1552. Receipt of trustee. - The receipt of the trustee, appointed under § 1551 of...
§ 1553. Personalty in possession of life tenant; discharge of executor or administrator with will annexed; liability of life tenant. - When the executor or administrator with the will annexed, in...
Subchapter V. Foreign Representatives
§ 1561. Definitions. - As used in this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply:...
§ 1562. Payment of debt and delivery of property to domiciliary foreign personal representative without local administration. - At any time after the expiration of 60 days from...
§ 1563. Payment or delivery discharges. - Payment or delivery made in good faith on the basis...
§ 1564. Resident creditor notice. - Payment or delivery under § 1562 of this title may...
§ 1565. Proof of authority and bond. - If no local ancillary administration or application or petition therefor...
§ 1566. Powers. - A domiciliary foreign personal representative who has complied with §...
§ 1567. Power of representatives in transition. - The power of a domiciliary foreign personal representative under §...
§ 1568. Ancillary and other local administrations; provisions governing. - In respect to the local administration of the estate of...
§ 1569. Jurisdiction by act of foreign personal representative. - A foreign personal representative submits to the jurisdiction of the...
§ 1570. Jurisdiction by act of decedent. - In addition to jurisdiction conferred by § 1569 of this...
§ 1571. Service on foreign personal representative. - (a) Service of process may be made upon the foreign...
§ 1572. Effect of adjudication for or against personal representative. - In the absence of fraud or collusion, an adjudication rendered...
§ 1573. Authentication and recognition of acknowledgements. - The authentication and recognition of the acknowledgement of a foreign...