20 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 51 - Minors

Section 5101 - When Guardian Unnecessary
When the entire real and personal estate, wherever located of a resident or nonresident minor has a net value of $25,000 or less, all...
Section 5102 - Power Of Natural Guardian
The court may authorize or direct the parent, person, or institution maintaining the minor to execute as natural guardian, any receipt, deed, mortgage, or...
Section 5103 - Sequestered Deposit
Without the appointment of a guardian, any amount in cash of a resident or nonresident minor may be ordered by the court to be...

Section 5111 - County Of Appointment
(a) Resident minor.--A guardian of the person or of the estate of a minor may be appointed by the court of the county in...
Section 5112 - Persons Not Qualified To Be Appointed By The Court
The court shall not appoint as guardian of the estate of a minor any person who is: (1) Under 18 years of age. (2)...
Section 5113 - Persons Preferred In Appointment
A person of the same religious persuasion as the parents of the minor shall be preferred as guardian of his person. A person nominated...
Section 5114 - Service Of Process On Nonresident Guardian (Repealed)
§ 5114. Service of process on nonresident guardian (Repealed). 1978 Repeal. Section 5114 was repealed April 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, effective in 60 days.
Section 5115 - Appointment Of Guardian In Conveyance
Any person, who makes a deed or gift inter vivos or exercises a right under an insurance or annuity policy to designate the beneficiary...
Section 5116 - Orphan Beneficiaries, Charitable Uses Or Trusts; Administration, Cities Of First Class
Whenever any city of the first class of this Commonwealth shall be charged with the administration of any charitable use or trust for both...

Section 5121 - Necessity, Form And Amount
Except as hereinafter provided, every guardian of the estate of a minor shall execute and file a bond which shall be in the name...
Section 5122 - When Bond Not Required
(a) Guardian named in conveyance.--No bond shall be required of a guardian appointed by or in accordance with the terms of a will, inter...
Section 5123 - Requiring Or Changing Amount Of Bond
The court, for cause shown, and after such notice, if any, as it shall direct, may require a surety bond, or increase or decrease...

Section 5131 - Grounds And Procedure
The grounds and the procedure for the removal or discharge of a guardian and his surety and the effect of such removal or discharge...

Section 5141 - Possession Of Real And Personal Property
The guardian of the estate of a minor appointed by the court until it is distributed or sold shall have the right to, and...
Section 5142 - Inventory
Every guardian, within three months after real or personal estate of his ward comes into his possession, shall verify by oath and file with...
Section 5143 - Abandonment Of Property
When any property is so burdensome or is so encumbered or is in such condition that it is of no value to the estate,...
Section 5144 - Powers, Duties And Liabilities Identical With Personal Representatives
The provisions concerning the powers, duties and liabilities of a guardian appointed by the court shall be the same as those set forth in...
Section 5145 - Investments
Subject only to the provisions of a governing instrument, if any, a guardian may accept, hold, invest in and retain investments as provided by...
Section 5146 - Guardian Named In Conveyance
(a) In general.--The powers, duties and liabilities of a guardian not appointed by the court as to property of the minor to which his...
Section 5147 - Proceedings Against Guardian
Any proceeding may be brought against a guardian or the surety on his bond in the court having jurisdiction of the estate, and if...

Section 5151 - Power To Sell Personal Property
A guardian appointed by the court may sell, at public or private sale, any personal property of the minor. Cross References. Section 5151 is...
Section 5152 - Power To Lease
A guardian appointed by the court may lease any real or personal property of the minor. Unless a longer term is approved by the...
Section 5153 - Provisions Identical To Other Estates
The provisions concerning guardians and minors' estates shall be the same as those set forth in the following provisions of this title for personal...
Section 5154 - Title Of Purchaser
If the guardian has given the bond, if any, required in accordance with this title, any sale, pledge, mortgage, or exchange by him, whether...
Section 5155 - Order Of Court
Whenever the court finds it to be for the best interests of the minor, a guardian may, for any purpose of administration or distribution,...

Section 5161 - When Accounting Filed
A guardian shall file an account of his administration whenever directed to do so by the court or may file an account at the...
Section 5162 - Where Accounts Filed
All accounts of guardians shall be filed in the office of the clerk.
Section 5163 - Notice, Audits, Reviews And Distribution
The provisions concerning accounts, audits, reviews, distribution and rights of distributees in a minor's estate shall be the same as those set forth in...
Section 5163.1 - Distribution To Personal Representative (Repealed)
§ 5163.1. Distribution to personal representative (Repealed). 1984 Repeal. Section 5163.1 was repealed October 12, 1984, P.L.929, No.182, effective immediately.
Section 5164 - Distributions For Support And Education
All income received by a guardian of the estate of a minor, including, subject to the requirements of Federal law relating thereto, all funds...
Section 5165 - Notice To Guardian Or Guardian Ad Litem
The guardian of the estate of a minor shall be given notice of proceedings affecting the interest of his ward in any property to...
Section 5166 - Death Of Minor
Upon the audit of the account of the guardian of a person who has died during minority, the auditing judge or auditor passing on...
Section 5167 - Failure To Present Claim At Audit
(a) In general.--Any person who at the audit of a guardian's account has a claim which arose out of the administration of the estate...

Last modified: October 8, 2016