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Estates not exceeding ,000 - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3531

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                               SUBCHAPTER D
                               DISTRIBUTION

     Sec.
     3531.  Estates not exceeding $25,000.
     3532.  At risk of personal representative.
     3533.  Award upon final confirmation of account.
     3534.  Distribution in kind.
     3534.1. Cost of distribution of tangible personal property.
     3535.  Delivery of possession of real estate.
     3536.  Recording and registering decrees awarding real estate.
     3537.  Compensation.
     3538.  Distributions involving persons born out of wedlock.
     3539.  Change in law after pattern of distribution established.
     3540.  Absentee and additional distributees.
     § 3531.  Estates not exceeding $25,000.
        When the gross real and personal estate of a decedent does
     not exceed the value of $25,000, the personal representative,
     after the expiration of one year from the date of the first
     complete advertisement of the grant of letters, may present his
     petition to the court with an annexed account showing the
     administration of the estate, the distribution theretofore made
     and suggesting the proper distribution of the estate not
     theretofore distributed. Thereupon, the court, upon satisfactory
     proof of notice to all known parties in interest, may approve
     the distribution theretofore made and order distribution of the
     assets not theretofore distributed and discharge the personal
     representative and his sureties from future liability without
     the expense of proceedings as in a formal account. The court may
     discharge only the surety from future liability, and may allow
     the personal representative to continue without surety upon
     condition that no further assets shall come into the possession
     of the personal representative until he files another bond, with
     sufficient surety, as required by the register.
     (Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293, eff. imd.; Dec. 1, 1994,
     P.L.655, No.102, eff. 60 days)

        1994 Amendment.  Section 10 of Act 102 provided that the
     amendment of section 3531 shall apply to the estates of
     decedents dying on or after the effective date of Act 102.

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