Georgia Code, Title 53, Chapter 9, Article 1 - Administration of Estate

• § 53-9-1 - Presumption or Proof of Death; Presumption that Missing Person Predeceased Other Deceased Individual; Perils or Tragedies Resulting in Probable Death
  (a) A domiciliary of this state who has been missing from the last known place of domicile for a continuous period of four years...
• § 53-9-2 - Filing and Contents of Petition; Publication of Notice
  (a) A petition for administration of the estate, for the probate in common form or solemn form of the will, for year's support, or...
• § 53-9-3 - Hearing; Finding of Death
  At the hearing the probate court shall hear such evidence as shall be offered for the purpose of ascertaining whether a diligent and reasonable...
• § 53-9-4 - Issuance of Letters or Order
  At any time after the entering of the order finding the missing individual to be dead, the probate court shall issue letters of administration...
• § 53-9-5 - Revocation of Letters Upon Proof that Missing Individual is Alive
  Upon petition of the missing individual, the probate court shall revoke the letters of administration or letters testamentary at any time on due and...
• § 53-9-6 - Recovery of Property by Missing Individual
  At any time before the expiration of two years after letters or an order for year's support or an order that no administration is...
• § 53-9-7 - Distribution of Assets
  Before a distribution of any of the assets of the estate of a missing person is made to a spouse, child, or other purported...
• § 53-9-8 - Probate Court Judges Allowed to Hold Certain Funds for Missing Heir or Beneficiary Under Decedent's Will
  (a) The judges of the probate court, in their discretion, shall also be the depositories for and custodians of all moneys of any heir...

Last modified: October 14, 2016