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 - Enactment. Chapter 31 was added June 30, 1972, P.L.508, No.164,...

Section 3101 - Payments to family and funeral directors - (a) Wages, salary or employee benefits.--Any employer of a person...

Section 3102 - Settlement of small estates on petition - When any person dies domiciled in the Commonwealth owning property...

Section 3121 - When allowable - The spouse of any decedent dying domiciled in the Commonwealth,...

Section 3122 - Payment or delivery of exemption - (a) Items claimed.--The personal representative, if any, shall deliver to...

Section 3123 - Payment from real estate - (a) Appraisement.--If the exemption is claimed in whole or in...

Section 3124 - Income - When the family exemption does not exhaust the entire real...

Section 3125 - Other remedies - The surviving spouse, child or children, parent or parents may...

Section 3126 - Grantee or lienholder - (a) Rights accruing before death; purchase money obligation.--Nothing in Subchapter...

Section 3131 - Place of probate - The will of a decedent domiciled in the Commonwealth at...

Section 3132 - Manner of probate - All wills shall be proved by the oaths or affirmations...

Section 3132.1 - Self-proved wills - (a) Proof.--Unless there is a contest with respect to the...

Section 3133 - Limit of time for probate - (a) Original probate.--A will may be offered for probate at...

Section 3134 - Nuncupative wills (Repealed) - 1974 Repeal. Section 3134 was repealed December 10, 1974, P.L.867,...

Section 3135 - Wills in foreign language - A writing not in English shall not be filed for...

Section 3136 - Wills probated outside the Commonwealth - A duly authenticated copy of a will proved outside of...

Section 3137 - Enforcing production of will - The register, at the request of any party in interest,...

Section 3138 - Later will or codicil - If a later will or codicil is submitted to the...

Section 3151 - Proper county - Letters testamentary or of administration on the estate of a...

Section 3152 - When 21 years elapsed - Letters testamentary or of administration shall not be granted after...

Section 3153 - Contents of petition - A petition for the grant of letters testamentary or of...

Section 3154 - Affidavit and oath - (a) Fiduciary and witness.--The affidavit to a petition for the...

Section 3155 - Persons entitled - (a) Letters testamentary.--Letters testamentary shall be granted by the register...

Section 3156 - Persons not qualified - No person shall be qualified to serve as a personal...

Section 3157 - Nonresidents - The register shall have discretion to refuse letters of administration...

Section 3158 - Letters of administration C.T.A - When there is a will, but no executor qualifies, letters...

Section 3159 - Letters of administration D.B.N. or D.B.N.C.T.A - When an entire vacancy occurs in the office of personal...

Section 3160 - Letters of administration durante minoritate, durante absentia, and pendente lite - Whenever the circumstances of the case require, letters of administration...

Section 3161 - Oath of personal representative - Before letters shall be granted to a personal representative by...

Section 3162 - Advertisement of grant of letters - (a) Notice generally.--The personal representative, immediately after the grant of...

Section 3163 - Submission to jurisdiction - (a) General rule.--By accepting appointment by the register of wills,...

Section 3171 - Individual estate - Except as hereinafter provided, before letters shall be granted to...

Section 3172 - Register's responsibility - If any register shall grant letters without having taken such...

Section 3173 - Fiduciary estate - The register, in his discretion, upon the application of any...

Section 3174 - When not required - (a) Corporate personal representative.--No bond shall be required of: (1)...

Section 3175 - Requiring or changing amount of bond - (a) By the court.--The court, upon cause shown and after...

Section 3181 - Revocation of letters - (a) When no will.--The register may revoke letters of administration...

Section 3182 - Grounds for removal - The court shall have exclusive power to remove a personal...

Section 3183 - Procedure for and effect of removal - The court on its own motion may, and on the...

Section 3184 - Discharge of personal representative and surety - After confirmation of his final account and distribution to the...