District of Columbia Code
Title 20 - Probate and Administration of Decedents’ Estates. [Enacted title]

§ 20–405. Supervised administration; interim orders; distribution and closing orders - Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, supervised administration is terminated...

§ 20–406. Unsupervised personal representative - A personal representative appointed without court supervision having been ordered,...

Chapter 5 - The Personal Representative and Special Administrator; Appointment, Control and Termination of Authority

Subchapter I - Appointment and Issuance of Letters; Bond; Accrual of Duties and Powers

§ 20–501. Conditions of appointment - As a condition to appointment, a personal representative, whether in...

§ 20–502. Bond; form - (a) When required. — Unless excused from giving bond by...

§ 20–503. Issuance and content of letters - After appointment, letters shall be issued to the personal representative...

§ 20–504. Form of letters - Letters of administration shall be in substantially the following form:...

§ 20–505. Time of accrual of duties and powers - The duties and powers of a personal representative commence upon...

Subchapter II - Several Personal Representatives

§ 20–511. Powers and duties of successor personal representative - A successor personal representative shall have the same powers and...

§ 20–512. Copersonal representatives; when joint action required; liability - (a) When two or more persons are appointed copersonal representatives,...

§ 20–513. Powers of surviving copersonal representative - Unless the will otherwise provides: (a) when the appointment of...

Subchapter III - Suspension and Termination of Powers

§ 20–521. Restraining acts of personal representatives - (a) On the petition of any interested person, the Court...

§ 20–522. Termination; general - The appointment of a personal representative shall be terminated in...

§ 20–523. Termination; effect - (a) Powers and duties. — Termination ends the rights and...

§ 20–524. Termination; death or disability - The appointment of a personal representative shall be terminated by...

§ 20–525. Termination; resignation - A personal representative may resign by filing a written statement...

§ 20–526. Termination; removal - (a) Cause for removal. — A personal representative shall be...

§ 20–527. Termination; change in proceeding - Upon a timely request for standard probate, a personal representative...

Subchapter IV - Special Administrator

§ 20–531. Appointment; qualifications - (a) Appointment. — Upon the filing of a petition by...

§ 20–532. Bond - A special administrator shall satisfy the requirements of section 20-502...

§ 20–533. Powers and duties - A special administrator shall have the duty and all powers...

§ 20–534. Termination of appointment - The appointment of a special administrator terminates either upon the...

Chapter 7 - Administration of the Estate

Subchapter I - Duties of Personal Representative; Notice of Appointment to Heirs, Legatees, and Creditors

§ 20–701. Status and duties of personal representative - (a) A personal representative, whether supervised or unsupervised, is a...

§ 20–701.01. Personal representative to proceed without court order; exception - (a) A personal representative shall proceed expeditiously with the settlement...

§ 20–702. Duties of personal representative; possession and control of estate - A personal representative has a right to and shall take...

§ 20–703. Preferences; sale of estate property - Any interested person may move the Court to have a...

§ 20–704. Notice of appointment to interested persons, creditors and unknown heirs - (a) Within 20 days after appointment, the personal representative shall,...

§ 20–705. Filing revised and corrected documents - If a personal representative discovers that any document previously filed...

Subchapter II - Inventory and Appraisal

§ 20–711. Inventory; general - (a) Subject to the provisions of section 20-715, a personal...

§ 20–712. Appraisal; supervised administration - (a) In a supervised administration, the fair market value of...

§ 20–713. Supervised administration; supplemental inventory; reappraisal - (a) Except as provided in section 20-731, the supervised personal...

§ 20–713.01. Unsupervised administration; inventory and appraisal duties of unsupervised personal representative - (a) If the administration is unsupervised, the personal representative, if...

§ 20–714. Revision of inventory - Whether the administration is or is not supervised, any interested...

§ 20–715. Inventory of successor personal representative - Except as provided in section 20-731 , within 3 months...

Subchapter III - Accounting

§ 20–721. Duty to account; supervised administration - Except as provided in section 20-731 , a supervised personal...

§ 20–722. Initial account; supervised administration - A supervised personal representative’s initial account of the administration of...

§ 20–723. Subsequent account; supervised administration - After an initial account has been rendered, subsequent accounts, whether...

§ 20–724. When to render accounts; supervised administration - (a) General. — Except as provided in section 20-731, a...

§ 20–725. Failure to render account - A supervised personal representative may be removed as provided in...

§ 20–726. Exceptions to account; supervised administration - Any interested person may file an exception to an account...

Subchapter IV - Waiver of Inventories and Accounts

§ 20–731. Waiver of filing; supervised administration - (a) A supervised personal representative shall be excused from filing...

§ 20–732. Waiver of formal Court audit; supervised administration - (a) A supervised personal representative shall be excused from a...

§ 20–733. Right of heir or legatee - Nothing shall excuse a personal representative, whether supervised or unsupervised,...

§ 20–734. Duty to account; unsupervised administration - An unsupervised personal representative shall account to interested persons for...

§ 20–735. Optional proceedings, terminating unsupervised administration; testate or intestate; Certificate of Completion - (a) Unless otherwise ordered by the Court for good cause...

§ 20–736. Finality - In the absence of fraud, neither the personal representative nor...

Subchapter V - Powers of Personal Representative

§ 20–741. General powers - Except as otherwise validly limited by the will, this title,...

§ 20–742. Court order - A personal representative may at any time petition the Court...

§ 20–743. Improper exercise of power; breach of fiduciary duty - If any personal representative’s exercise of power concerning the estate...

§ 20–743.01. Sale, encumbrance, or transaction involving conflict of interest; voidable; exceptions - Any sale, lease, or encumbrance to the personal representative, the...

§ 20–744. Protection of person dealing with personal representative - Except as otherwise provided in section 20-753 , a person...

Subchapter VI - Claims by Personal Representatives and Attorneys

§ 20–751. Compensation - Except as may otherwise be ordered by the Court for...

§ 20–752. Expenses of estate litigation - Without regard to the provisions of section 20-751 , when...

§ 20–753. Proceedings for review of employment of agents and compensation of personal representatives and employees of estate - (a) On petition of any interested person (other than one...

Chapter 9 - Claims

§ 20–901. Claim not paid in normal course of administration - No proceeding to enforce a claim against a decedent’s estate...

§ 20–902. Effect of statute of limitations - Unless a contrary intent is expressly indicated in the will,...

§ 20–903. Limitation on presentation of claims against the estate - (a) Requirement of presentation; time; limitation. — Except as otherwise...

§ 20–904. Exempt assets - Where the decedent was the head of the family or...

§ 20–905. Manner of presentation of claim - (a) A claimant shall present a claim against a decedent’s...

§ 20–906. Order of payment - (a) If the applicable assets of the estate are insufficient...

§ 20–907. Funeral expenses - Where an estate is solvent and the will expressly empowers...

§ 20–908. Action on claims; remedy for failure to act - (a) For claims presented as provided in section 20-905 within...

§ 20–909. Payment of claim - (a) No later than 8 months from the date of...

§ 20–910. Meeting of creditors - A personal representative may convene, on a day designated by...

§ 20–911. Claim not yet due - (a) If an unsecured claim which has been proven and...

§ 20–912. Secured claim - (a) A creditor having a secured claim who surrenders the...

§ 20–913. Contingent claim. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Mar. 21, 1995, D.C. Law 10-241, § 3, 42...

§ 20–914. Execution and levy prohibited - No execution shall issue upon nor shall any levy be...

Chapter 11 - Special Provisions Relating to Distribution

§ 20–1101. Renunciation; legatee or heir. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Mar. 6, 1991, D.C. Law 8-204, § 10, 37...

§ 20–1102. Distribution in kind; valuation; method - Subject to the terms of any will and the needs...

§ 20–1103. Distribution in kind; assignment, transfer and release of property - If distribution in kind is made, the personal representative shall,...

§ 20–1104. Distribution; effect - (a) Title of distributees. — Proof that a distributee has...

§ 20–1105. Petition for purpose of distribution - When two or more heirs or legatees are entitled to...

§ 20–1106. Distribution to a minor - (a) If a personal representative is required to distribute assets...

§ 20–1107. Distribution to fiduciary for nonresident person under legal disability other than minority - If a fiduciary has been appointed for a nonresident person...

§ 20–1108. Certain formula clauses to be construed to refer to federal estate and generation-skipping transfer tax rules applicable to estates of decedents dying on December 31, 2009 - (a)(1) A will or trust of a decedent who dies...

Chapter 13 - Closing the Estate

§ 20–1301. Termination of appointment - (a) Supervised administration. — The approval of the final account...

§ 20–1302. Liability of heir or legatee to creditor - After an estate has been closed, a claim not barred...

§ 20–1303. Limitations - (a) Proceedings against personal representative. — Unless otherwise barred, any...

§ 20–1304. Subsequent administration - If property is discovered after an estate has been closed...

§ 20–1305. Confirmatory acts - Nothing in this title shall be deemed to affect the...

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District of Columbia Code Title 20 - Probate and Administration of Decedents’ Estates. [Enacted title]

District of Columbia Code
Title 20 - Probate and Administration of Decedents’ Estates. [Enacted title]