Except as hereinafter provided, before letters shall be granted to any personal representative, he shall execute and file a bond which shall be in the name of the Commonwealth, with sufficient surety, in such amount as the register considers necessary, having regard to the value of the personal estate which will come into the control of the personal representative, and conditioned in the following form:
(1) When one personal representative.--The condition of this obligation is, that if the said personal representative shall well and truly administer the estate according to law, this obligation shall be void; but otherwise, it shall remain in force.
(2) When two or more personal representatives.--The condition of this obligation is, that if the said personal representatives or any of them shall well and truly administer the estate according to law, this obligation shall be void as to the personal representative or representatives who shall so administer the estate; but otherwise, it shall remain in force.
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Section 3134 - Nuncupative wills (Repealed)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