Petition for partial distribution; bond.
1. At any time after the lapse of 3 months from the issuing of letters, the personal representative or any heir or devisee, or the assignee, grantee or successor in interest of any heir or devisee, may petition the court to distribute a share of the estate, or any portion thereof, to any person entitled thereto, upon the person giving a bond, with approved security, for the payment of the person’s proportion of the debts of the estate.
2. The court may dispense with a bond if it is made to appear that the bond is unnecessary.
Last modified: February 25, 2006