§ 13-6-4. Application for administration of prisoner’s estate.
Whenever any person shall be imprisoned in the adult correctional institutions for life or for a term of seven (7) years or more, any creditor of that person may apply to the probate court of the city or town in which the prisoner last lived and was domiciled in this state, or in which he or she shall have any estate, for letters of administration to be granted on the prisoner’s estate to the prisoner’s next of kin or to any disinterested person, during the imprisonment.
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 285, § 54; G.L. 1909, ch. 354, § 54; G.L. 1909, ch. 354, § 62; P.L. 1915, ch. 1261, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 407, § 62; G.L. 1938, ch. 624, § 4; impl. am. P.L. 1956, ch. 3721, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 13-6-4.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 13 - Criminals – Correctional Institutions
Chapter 13-6 - Loss of Rights by Prisoners
Section 13-6-1. - Life prisoners deemed civilly dead.
Section 13-6-2.2. - Severability of § 13-6-2.1.
Section 13-6-3. - Wills or conveyances during imprisonment.
Section 13-6-4. - Application for administration of prisoner’s estate.
Section 13-6-5. - Notice and appointment of administrator.
Section 13-6-6. - Powers of administrator.
Section 13-6-7. - Bond to secure estate to prisoner — Life prisoners.