§ 8-9-4. Election and powers of probate judge. The town council of any town which may, at the regular meeting of the town, have delegated to its town council such power, shall elect a judge of probate for the town, and any city council or any town may at the election of town officers elect […]
§ 8-9-5. Disqualification or inability of probate judge. Unless otherwise provided, whenever the judge of probate in any city or town is a party or is interested in any case arising in his or her town, or is absent or unable to perform his or her duties, the town council of the town shall perform […]
§ 8-9-6. Town or city clerk as clerk of court. The town or city clerk of each town and city, unless special provision is made by law or charter to the contrary, shall be the clerk of the probate court of the town or city. History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, ch. 35; G.L. 1909, ch. 306, […]
§ 8-9-7. Duties of probate clerk. The probate clerk shall attend the meetings of the probate court and shall record its proceedings and also all wills, administrations, inventories, accounts, decrees, orders, determinations, and other writings, which shall be made, granted, or decreed upon by the probate court of the town or city, and shall have […]
§ 8-9-8. Clerk pro tempore in absence of probate clerk. Whenever the clerk of any probate court shall not appear at the time and place appointed for the meeting of the court, the court may appoint a clerk for the time being, who, after being duly sworn, shall perform all the duties, exercise all the […]
§ 8-9-9. General probate jurisdiction. Every probate court shall have jurisdiction in the town or city in which it is established of the probate of wills; the granting of administration, the appointment of custodians, of administrators, of guardians of persons and estates, or of persons only or of estates only, and of conservators; the accepting […]
