A certified copy of every adjudication or decree awarding real estate or an appropriate excerpt from either of them shall be recorded, at the expense of the estate, in the deed book in the office of the recorder of deeds of each county where the real estate so awarded lies, shall be indexed by the recorder in the grantor's index under the name of the decedent and in the grantee's index under the name of the distributee, and shall be registered in the survey bureau or with the proper authorities empowered to keep a register of real estate in the county: Provided, That no adjudication or decree awarding real estate subject to the payment of any sum by the distributee shall be recorded or registered unless there is offered for recording, concurrently therewith, written evidence of the payment of such sum.
Cross References. Section 3536 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533, 7799.2 of this title.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution
Section 3501 - Accounting required (Repealed)
Section 3501.1 - Accounting by personal representative
Section 3501.2 - Annexation of account of terminated trust, guardianship or agency
Section 3503 - Notice to parties in interest
Section 3504 - Representation of parties in interest (Repealed)
Section 3511 - Audits in counties having separate orphans' court division
Section 3512 - Audits in counties having no separate orphans' court division
Section 3513 - Statement of proposed distribution
Section 3514 - Confirmation of account and approval of proposed distribution
Section 3521 - Rehearing; relief granted
Section 3531 - Estates not exceeding $50,000
Section 3532 - At risk of personal representative
Section 3533 - Award upon final confirmation of account
Section 3534 - Distribution in kind
Section 3534.1 - Cost of distribution of tangible personal property
Section 3535 - Delivery of possession of real estate
Section 3536 - Recording and registering decrees awarding real estate
Section 3538 - Distributions involving persons born out of wedlock
Section 3539 - Change in law after pattern of distribution established
Section 3540 - Absentee and additional distributees
Section 3541 - Order of abatement
Section 3543 - Income on distributive shares
Section 3544 - Liability of personal representative for interest
Section 3545 - Transcripts of balances due by personal representative
Section 3546 - Determination of title to decedent's interest in real estate
Section 3551 - Enforcement of payment
Section 3552 - Discharge of portion of property from charges payable in the future
Section 3553 - Discharge of property from lien of charge
Section 3554 - Presumption of payment, release or extinguishment