§ 33-19-27. Sale, lease, or mortgage by foreign guardian of nonresident ward.
If any person who resides out of the state, but within the United States, is under guardianship in the state, territory, or district where he or she resides, and has no guardian appointed in this state, the foreign guardian may file a copy of his or her appointment, duly authenticated according to an act of congress in those cases, in the probate court of any town or city in this state in which there is real estate of the ward. After filing and upon petition to the probate court, he or she may be authorized to sell, mortgage, or lease the real estate of the ward in any town or city, for the purposes, in the manner, after like notice, and upon the terms provided in this chapter in case of sale, mortgage, or lease, by a guardian appointed in this state.
History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 763; G.L. 1909, ch. 308, § 30; G.L. 1923, ch. 359, § 30; G.L. 1938, ch. 570, § 30; G.L. 1956, § 33-19-27.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure
Chapter 33-19 - Real Property of Decedents and Incompetents
Section 33-19-1. - Court consent to mortgage.
Section 33-19-2. - Terms of mortgages and notes.
Section 33-19-3. - Authority to sell real estate.
Section 33-19-4. - Sale of whole real estate to prevent injury.
Section 33-19-5. - Finality of decree authorizing sale or mortgage — Claims against estate.
Section 33-19-6. - Duration of authority to sell or mortgage.
Section 33-19-8. - Guardian’s bond to cover proceeds of the sale or mortgage.
Section 33-19-9. - Public or private sale — Petitioner as purchaser — Minimum price fixed.
Section 33-19-10. - Notice of sale at auction.
Section 33-19-11. - Adjournment of auction sale.
Section 33-19-12. - Affidavit as to notice of sale.
Section 33-19-13. - Laying out of roads and platting of land.
Section 33-19-14. - Conditions imposed by court.
Section 33-19-15. - Conveyances.
Section 33-19-17. - Release of interests in real estate by guardians.
Section 33-19-18. - Sale of cemetery lots.
Section 33-19-19. - Exchange of cemetery lots by guardians.
Section 33-19-21. - Irregularities in proceedings.
Section 33-19-22. - Validity of sale as against claimant adverse to decedent or ward.
Section 33-19-23. - Surplus real estate proceeds distributed as real estate.
Section 33-19-24. - Examination of sale proceedings — Recovery of damages.
Section 33-19-26. - Authority for lease by guardian.
Section 33-19-27. - Sale, lease, or mortgage by foreign guardian of nonresident ward.