Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 31 - Dispositions Independent of Letters; Family Exemption; Probate of Wills and Grant of Letters
Section 3133 - Limit of time for probate


(a) Original probate.--A will may be offered for probate at any time.
(b) Conclusiveness of original probate.--The probate of a will shall be conclusive as to all property, real or personal, devised or bequeathed by it, unless an appeal shall be taken from probate as provided in section 908 (relating to appeals), or the probate record shall have been amended as authorized by section 3138 (relating to later will or codicil).
(c) Effect upon grantee or lienholder.--A will offered for original or subsequent probate more than one year after the testator's death shall be void against a bona fide grantee or holder of a lien on real estate of the testator if the conveyance or lien is entered of record before the will is offered for probate.
(Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293, eff. imd.; July 11, 1980, P.L.565, No.118, eff. 60 days)

1980 Amendment. Act 118 amended subsec. (c).
1974 Amendment. Act 293 amended subsec. (a).

Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES

Chapter 31 - Dispositions Independent of Letters; Family Exemption; Probate of Wills and Grant of Letters

Extra - Chapter Notes

Section 3101 - Payments to family and funeral directors

Section 3102 - Settlement of small estates on petition

Section 3121 - When allowable

Section 3122 - Payment or delivery of exemption

Section 3123 - Payment from real estate

Section 3124 - Income

Section 3125 - Other remedies

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Section 3134 - Nuncupative wills (Repealed)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 3151 - Proper county

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 3157 - Nonresidents

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