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                                 TITLE 20
                    DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES

     Chapter
        1.  Short Title and Definitions
        3.  Ownership of Property; Legal Title and Equitable Estate
        7.  Orphans' Court Divisions
        9.  Register of Wills
       21.  Intestate Succession
       22.  Elective Share of Surviving Spouse
       25.  Wills
       27.  Contractual Arrangements Relating to Succession
       31.  Dispositions Independent of Letters; Family Exemption;
            Probate of Wills and Grant of Letters
       33.  Administration and Personal Representatives
       35.  Accounts and Distribution
       37.  Apportionment of Death Taxes
       41.  Foreign Fiduciaries
       43.  Temporary Fiduciaries
       45.  Sureties
       51.  Minors
       53.  Pennsylvania Uniform Transfers to Minors Act
       54.  Advance Directive for Health Care
       54A. Out-of-Hospital Nonresuscitation
       55.  Incapacitated Persons
       56.  Powers of Attorney
       57.  Absentees and Presumed Decedents
       58.  Mental Health Care
       61.  Estates
       62.  Disclaimers
       63.  Multiple-Party Accounts
       64.  Transfer on Death Security Registration
       71.  Trust Estates
       72.  Prudent Investor Rule
       73.  Municipalities Investments
       75.  Limitations on Exercise of Trustee Powers and Powers of
            Beneficiaries to Appoint Trustees
       81.  Principal and Income
       82.  Revised Price Act (Repealed)
       83.  Inalienable Property
       84.  Military Service
       85.  Simultaneous Death
       86.  Anatomical Gifts
       87.  Employee Benefits
       88.  Slayers

        Enactment.  Unless otherwise noted, the provisions of Title
     20 were added June 30, 1972, P.L.508, No.164, effective July 1,
     1972.
        Special Provisions in Appendix.  See section 4 of Act 164 of
     1972 in the appendix to this title for special provisions
     relating to effective date and savings provisions. of title and
     preservation of rights and liabilities.
        Title Heading.  The heading of Title 20 was amended June 30,
     1972, P.L.508, No.164; December 10, 1974, P.L.816, No.271; and
     December 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293.

                                CHAPTER 1
                       SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS

     Sec.
     101.  Short title.
     102.  Definitions.

        Enactment.  Chapter 1 was added June 30, 1972, P.L.508,
     No.164, effective July 1, 1972.
     § 101.  Short title.
        This title shall be known and may be cited as the "Probate,
     Estates and Fiduciaries Code." Each chapter herein shall be
     known and may be cited by its chapter heading.

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