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