Except as otherwise provided by the will, if any, the personal representative may sell, at public or private sale, any personal property whether specifically bequeathed or not, and any real property not specifically devised, and with the joinder of the specific devisee real property specifically devised. When the personal representative has been required to give a bond, no proceeds of real estate, including proceeds arising by reason of involuntary conversion, shall be paid to him until the court has made an order excusing him from entering additional security or requiring additional security, and in the latter event, only after he has entered the additional security.
(Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293, eff. imd.)
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives
Section 3301 - Duty of personal representative
Section 3303 - Supplemental inventory
Section 3304 - Claims against personal representative
Section 3305 - Objections to inventory
Section 3311 - Possession of real and personal estate; exception
Section 3312 - Renunciation of right to administer property
Section 3313 - Liability insurance
Section 3314 - Continuation of business
Section 3315 - Incorporation of or formation of entity to operate estate's business
Section 3316 - Investment of funds
Section 3317 - Claims against co-fiduciary
Section 3318 - Revival of judgments against personal representative
Section 3320 - Voting stock by proxy
Section 3322 - Acceptance of deed in lieu of foreclosure
Section 3323 - Compromise of controversies
Section 3324 - Death or incapacity of fiduciary
Section 3325 - Administrator C.T.A
Section 3326 - Administrator D.B.N. and D.B.N.C.T.A
Section 3327 - Surviving or remaining personal representatives
Section 3328 - Disagreement of personal representatives
Section 3329 - Effect of revocation of letters, probate of will, later will or codicil
Section 3330 - Notice of devise or bequest to corporation or association
Section 3331 - Liability of personal representative on contracts
Section 3332 - Inherent powers and duties
Section 3354 - Power given in governing instrument
Section 3355 - Restraint of sale
Section 3356 - Purchase by personal representative
Section 3357 - Title of purchaser
Section 3358 - Collateral attack
Section 3359 - Record of proceedings; county where real estate lies
Section 3360 - Contracts, inadequacy of consideration or better offer; brokers' commissions
Section 3371 - Actions which survive
Section 3372 - Substitution of personal representative in pending action or proceedings
Section 3373 - Action by or against personal representative
Section 3374 - Death or removal of fiduciary
Section 3375 - Abatement of action for failure to take out letters
Section 3376 - Limitations against debt due estate
Section 3377 - Execution on judgments
Section 3381 - Liens and charges existing at death not impaired
Section 3382 - Judgments which are liens at death
Section 3383 - Statutes of limitations; claims not barred at death
Section 3384 - Notice of claim
Section 3384.1 - Notice after settlor of revocable trust has died
Section 3385 - Limitation upon claims
Section 3386 - Failure to present claim at audit
Section 3387 - Claims not due; certain to become due
Section 3388 - Claims not certain to become due
Section 3389 - Claims subject to litigation in other courts
Section 3390 - Specific performance of contracts
Section 3391 - Proceeding against personal representative
Section 3392 - Classification and order of payment
Section 3393 - Notice to Commonwealth and political subdivisions