Georgia Code, Title 53, Chapter 7, Article 2 - Actions Against Personal Representatives

• § 53-7-10 - Allowable Defenses; Generally
  (a) For purposes of this article, the term "personal representative" includes temporary administrators.(b) When an action is brought against a personal representative in that...
• § 53-7-11 - Allowable Defenses; Action Originating in Lifetime of Decedent
  When the cause of action originated in the lifetime of the decedent, a personal representative may make any defense or pleading which the decedent...
• § 53-7-12 - Survival of Action
  An action against joint personal representatives shall not abate by the death of one but shall proceed against the survivor or survivors.
• § 53-7-13 - Service of Process
  In all cases where there are two or more personal representatives and one or more of them removes beyond the limits of this state,...
• § 53-7-14 - Action Against Removed Personal Administrator
  (a) When letters testamentary or letters of administration are revoked, no action by or against the removed personal representative shall abate. The newly appointed...
• § 53-7-15 - Applicability of Provisions Relating to Sureties on Guardians' Bonds
  The provisions of law governing the situation in which the surety on a guardian's bond dies, becomes insolvent, removes beyond the limits of this...
• § 53-7-16 - Joint and Several Liability of Personal Representative and Sureties
  The personal representative and sureties shall be held and deemed joint and several obligors and may be subjected jointly and severally to liability in...
• § 53-7-17 - Liability on Common Bond of Two or More Personal Representatives
  If two or more personal representatives unite in a common bond, all the sureties shall be bound for the acts of each personal representative...
• § 53-7-18 - Liability of Sureties on Bond of Removed Personal Representative
  In all cases of removal of a personal representative for any cause, the sureties on that personal representative's bond shall be liable for the...
• § 53-7-19 - Action on Bond for Failure to Settle and Account With Heir or Beneficiary
  When any personal representative fails to settle and account with any heir or beneficiary of the estate, the heir or beneficiary may bring an...
• § 53-7-20 - Action on Bond Upon Liability of Decedent and Return of Execution Marked Nulla Bona
  Upon the rendition of a judgment against a personal representative upon any liability of the decedent and a return of writ of execution marked...
• § 53-7-21 - Against What Property Judgment Levied
  In an action against a personal representative in that person's representative capacity, the judgment shall generally be de bonis testatoris. However, when the personal...
• § 53-7-22 - Levy Upon Property; Entering of Judgment and Issuance of Execution
  (a) When a judgment has been obtained against the principal and surety or sureties on the bond of a personal representative, guardian, or other...
• § 53-7-23 - Property Upon Which Execution Levied
  In all cases of judgments recovered against a personal representative and the sureties of a personal representative, the execution shall first be levied on...

Last modified: October 14, 2016