Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution

Extra - Chapter Notes - Enactment. Chapter 35 was added June 30, 1972, P.L.508, No.164,...

Section 3501 - Accounting required (Repealed) - 1974 Repeal. Section 3501 was repealed December 10, 1974, P.L.867,...

Section 3501.1 - Accounting by personal representative - A personal representative may file his account at any time...

Section 3501.2 - Annexation of account of terminated trust, guardianship or agency - A personal representative who has received property from a trustee,...

Section 3502 - Where filed - The account of the personal representative shall be filed in...

Section 3503 - Notice to parties in interest - The personal representative shall give written notice of the filing...

Section 3504 - Representation of parties in interest (Repealed) - 1999 Repeal. Section 3504 was repealed October 12, 1999, P.L.422,...

Section 3511 - Audits in counties having separate orphans' court division - In any county having a separate orphans' court division, the...

Section 3512 - Audits in counties having no separate orphans' court division - In any county having no separate orphans' court division, the...

Section 3513 - Statement of proposed distribution - A personal representative filing an account shall file a statement...

Section 3514 - Confirmation of account and approval of proposed distribution - No account shall be confirmed, or statement of proposed distribution...

Section 3521 - Rehearing; relief granted - If any party in interest shall, within five years after...

Section 3531 - Estates not exceeding $50,000 - When the gross real and personal estate of a decedent...

Section 3532 - At risk of personal representative - (a) Rights of claimants against personal representatives.--A personal representative, at...

Section 3533 - Award upon final confirmation of account - A personal representative shall be relieved of liability with respect...

Section 3534 - Distribution in kind - The court, for cause shown, may order the estate to...

Section 3534.1 - Cost of distribution of tangible personal property - Except as otherwise provided in the will, if any, the...

Section 3535 - Delivery of possession of real estate - Upon application of any party in interest and after such...

Section 3536 - Recording and registering decrees awarding real estate - A certified copy of every adjudication or decree awarding real...

Section 3537 - Compensation - The court shall allow such compensation to the personal representative...

Section 3538 - Distributions involving persons born out of wedlock - A personal representative may administer an estate on the assumption...

Section 3539 - Change in law after pattern of distribution established - A personal representative shall have no liability for continued distribution...

Section 3540 - Absentee and additional distributees - (a) Distributions due absentees.-- (1) If the continued existence or...

Section 3541 - Order of abatement - (a) General rules.--Except as otherwise provided by the will, if...

Section 3542 - Contribution - The court may make orders of contribution among legatees or...

Section 3543 - Income on distributive shares - (a) Pecuniary legacy.--A pecuniary legacy bequeathed in trust shall be...

Section 3544 - Liability of personal representative for interest - A personal representative who has committed a breach of duty...

Section 3545 - Transcripts of balances due by personal representative - (a) Filing in common pleas.--The prothonotary of any court of...

Section 3546 - Determination of title to decedent's interest in real estate - (a) Applicability.--This section shall apply if: (1) A person dies...

Section 3551 - Enforcement of payment - When a sum of money is charged upon real or...

Section 3552 - Discharge of portion of property from charges payable in the future - When a sum of money is charged upon real or...

Section 3553 - Discharge of property from lien of charge - (a) Payment into court.--When real or personal property by will,...

Section 3554 - Presumption of payment, release or extinguishment - (a) Lapse of 20 years.--When: (1) for 20 years after...