Section 33-18-18. – Intervention in proceedings by or against estate.
§ 33-18-18. Intervention in proceedings by or against estate. If a suit or proceeding be pending, whether instituted by the administrator, executor, guardian, or any legally interested person, then no additional suit or proceeding shall be brought for the same cause, but the administrator, executor, guardian, or any legally interested person, may intervene in the […]
Section 33-18-19. – Costs and expenses in proceeding prosecuted or intervened in by interested person.
§ 33-18-19. Costs and expenses in proceeding prosecuted or intervened in by interested person. Any legally interested person instituting a suit or proceeding shall, in case of failure to prosecute the suit successfully, be entitled to no costs, and shall be personally liable to the adverse party for costs, and in no event shall those […]
Section 33-18-20. – Compromise of actions prosecuted or defended by interested persons — Property recovered.
§ 33-18-20. Compromise of actions prosecuted or defended by interested persons — Property recovered. Courts of probate shall have the power to compromise all claims sued for or defended by any legally interested person referred to in §§ 33-18-17 — 33-18-19 in the same manner and to the same extent as may now be done […]
Section 33-18-21. – Recording of documents in court.
§ 33-18-21. Recording of documents in court. Any paper or instrument discharging a claim or purporting to acknowledge the performance of a duty or the payment of money, for which an executor, administrator, or guardian is chargeable or accountable in a probate court, shall, upon the request of a party interested, be recorded in the […]
Section 33-18-22. – Release by good faith delivery of property under court order.
§ 33-18-22. Release by good faith delivery of property under court order. Whenever any person acting as executor, administrator, custodian, or guardian shall make payments or deliver property or estate pursuant to the order of a probate court having jurisdiction, after the expiration of the time within which an appeal lies from the order and […]
Section 33-18-23. – Bona fide transfer of property to executor, administrator, or guardian.
§ 33-18-23. Bona fide transfer of property to executor, administrator, or guardian. All persons making or permitting to be made any payment or transfer bona fide upon any official certificate of appointment of any executor, administrator, or guardian, issued by the probate court in respect of the estate of any deceased person or ward, shall […]
Section 33-18-24. – Transfer of corporate securities and mortgages by foreign fiduciary.
§ 33-18-24. Transfer of corporate securities and mortgages by foreign fiduciary. Any corporation organized under the laws of this state may, before having actual notice of the pendency of an application in this state for letters testamentary, of administration, or guardianship, permit the executor of the will or administrator of the estate of a decedent […]
Section 33-18-25. – Payment of debt or delivery of property to foreign fiduciary.
§ 33-18-25. Payment of debt or delivery of property to foreign fiduciary. Any person or corporation in this state, before having actual notice of the pendency of an application in this state for letters testamentary of administration or guardianship may pay any money owing or deliver any personal property belonging to the estate of any […]
Section 33-18-26. – Action by foreign executor or administrator — Prerequisites.
§ 33-18-26. Action by foreign executor or administrator — Prerequisites. If a corporation refuses to permit a transfer as provided in § 33-18-24 or a person indebted refuses to pay, or having possession refuses to deliver personal property as permitted in § 33-18-25, the executor or administrator, if there is no executor or administrator appointed […]
Section 33-18-27. – Perpetuation by fiduciary of evidence of payments and delivery — Final discharge.
§ 33-18-27. Perpetuation by fiduciary of evidence of payments and delivery — Final discharge. If an executor, administrator, or guardian has paid or delivered to the persons entitled thereto the money or other property in his or her hands as required by a decree of a probate court, he or she may perpetuate the evidence […]