(a) Items claimed.--The personal representative, if any, shall deliver to the spouse, child or children, parent or parents, the items of personal property claimed as the exemption, at the values fixed by the inventory and appraisement.
(b) Property set aside for minors or incapacitated persons.--When any spouse, child or parent entitled to all or part of the exemption is a minor or an incapacitated person, the guardian of his estate, and if no such guardian has been appointed then the personal representative, without request made to him by anyone, shall select, for the use and benefit of the minor or incapacitated person, real or personal property to the full value to which he is entitled, and in so doing the guardian or personal representative shall be governed by the necessities of the minor or incapacitated person in the circumstances of each case.
(c) Control of court.--On petition of any party in interest, the court, with or without appraisal and on such notice as it shall direct, may control the distribution and the valuation of articles of personal property retained or claimed.
(Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293, eff. imd.; Apr. 16, 1992, P.L.108, No.24, eff. 60 days)
1992 Amendment. Act 24 amended subsec. (b). See section 21 of Act 24 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to applicability.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Section 3101 - Payments to family and funeral directors
Section 3102 - Settlement of small estates on petition
Section 3122 - Payment or delivery of exemption
Section 3123 - Payment from real estate
Section 3126 - Grantee or lienholder
Section 3131 - Place of probate
Section 3132 - Manner of probate
Section 3132.1 - Self-proved wills
Section 3133 - Limit of time for probate
Section 3134 - Nuncupative wills (Repealed)
Section 3135 - Wills in foreign language
Section 3136 - Wills probated outside the Commonwealth
Section 3137 - Enforcing production of will
Section 3138 - Later will or codicil
Section 3152 - When 21 years elapsed
Section 3153 - Contents of petition
Section 3154 - Affidavit and oath
Section 3155 - Persons entitled
Section 3156 - Persons not qualified
Section 3158 - Letters of administration C.T.A
Section 3159 - Letters of administration D.B.N. or D.B.N.C.T.A
Section 3160 - Letters of administration durante minoritate, durante absentia, and pendente lite
Section 3161 - Oath of personal representative
Section 3162 - Advertisement of grant of letters
Section 3163 - Submission to jurisdiction
Section 3171 - Individual estate
Section 3172 - Register's responsibility
Section 3173 - Fiduciary estate
Section 3174 - When not required
Section 3175 - Requiring or changing amount of bond
Section 3181 - Revocation of letters
Section 3182 - Grounds for removal
Section 3183 - Procedure for and effect of removal
Section 3184 - Discharge of personal representative and surety