§ 33-13-1. Notice of devise or bequest to corporation or association. Within ninety (90) days after the admission to probate of any will containing a devise or bequest to any corporation or voluntary association, the executor or administrator or other estate fiduciary shall mail by certified mail return receipt requested, a written notice of the […]
§ 33-13-10. Action for an accounting brought by residuary legatee. An executor, being a residuary legatee, may bring an action for an accounting against his or her co-executor concerning the estate in his or her hands, and for his or her part thereof, and every other residuary legatee shall have the like remedy against an […]
§ 33-13-11. Time when order of distribution allowed. At any time after six (6) months from the date of the first publication of the notice of the qualification of the first administrator, a probate court may make an order of distribution, if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court that the administrator has […]
§ 33-13-12. Time when order of distribution required. Within two (2) years after the first publication, or such further time as the probate court for cause shown may allow, administrators shall obtain an order of distribution, ascertaining the distributees and the proportion of the personal estate due each. History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 983; G.L. […]
§ 33-13-13. Payment of money into court for benefit of foreign legatee or distributee. Where it shall appear that a legatee or distributee resides outside of the United States or its territories and would not have the benefit, use, or control of the money, or other property due him or her, the probate court may […]
§ 33-13-14. Liability of heirs, next of kin, devisees, and legatees for debts. After the settlement of an estate by an executor or administrator, and after the expiration of six (6) months from the date of the first publication of the notice of his or her qualification by the first executor or administrator, the heirs, […]
§ 33-13-15. Action by creditor against heirs, next of kin, devisees, and legatees. Any creditor holding a contingent claim, the right of action on which did not accrue during the period of six (6) months, who shall bring his or her action within one year after his or her right of action accrues, and any […]
§ 33-13-16. Liability of estate of heir, next of kin, devisee, or legatee for creditor’s claim. If an heir, next of kin, devisee, or legatee dies, without having paid his or her just proportion of the claim, his or her estate shall be liable therefor, as for his or her own debt, to the extent […]
§ 33-13-17. Recovery of creditors’ claims — Apportionment of liability. In a case under §§ 33-13-15 and 33-13-16, the creditor shall recover his or her claim by a civil action against all persons so liable, or against any of them as are within reach of process. The court shall decide how much each one of […]
§ 33-13-18. Failure of creditor to join all defendants — Addition of parties. An action under §§ 33-13-15 and 33-13-16 shall not be dismissed or barred for not making all persons who might have been so included defendants; but, in any stage of the cause, the court, upon terms as may be deemed reasonable, may […]
§ 33-13-19. Liability to creditor for amount payable by insolvent heir, devisee or other — Restriction to amount received from estate. If an heir, devisee or other person who was originally liable with others for the claim is insolvent, unable to pay his or her proportion thereof, or beyond reach of process, the others shall […]
§ 33-13-2. Order for conversion of personalty into cash and distribution. If the estate of a deceased person is to be distributed in whole or in part, the probate court, upon the petition of any person interested, after any notice as it may direct, may order the executor or administrator to convert the personal property […]
§ 33-13-20. Indemnity between heirs, next of kin, legatees, and devisees. If, in consequence of insolvency, absence, or other cause, a person liable for a claim fails to pay his or her just proportion of the claim to the creditor, he or she shall be liable to indemnify all who pay more than their just […]
§ 33-13-3. Restrictions on power of heir or devisee to incumber or alien realty. No heir or devisee of a deceased person shall have power, within two (2) years and six (6) months after the first publication of the notice of the qualification of the first executor or administrator on the estate of the deceased […]
§ 33-13-4. Rights of creditors and heirs where no administration granted. Any creditor or creditors of any deceased person who shall have died intestate, being seised at the time of his or her death of real estate within the state, and upon whose estate no letters of administration shall have been taken, shall be forever […]
§ 33-13-5. Payment of legacy on giving of indemnity bond. When an executor or administrator, after having given bond for the discharge of his or her trust, is requested by a legatee to make payment in whole or in part of a legacy, the probate court, if the executor or administrator consents, may require that […]
§ 33-13-6. Filing of statement listing legatees — Notice. An executor may, and for cause shown shall, file within two (2) years after the date of the first publication, or any further time as the probate court may allow, and at the time during the periods as the court may direct, a statement in the […]
§ 33-13-7. Approval of statement listing legatees — Order to pay legacies. Upon a hearing on the statement, the court shall approve the statement as filed, or shall amend and approve the same as amended, and shall enter its order directing the payment and satisfaction of the legacies. If an appeal is taken, the probate […]
§ 33-13-8. Determination of questions as to legacies. Whenever any question arises as to the identity of a legatee, or the construction, or the payment and satisfaction of any legacy, the probate court, upon petition setting out any questions, after notice by citation to all known parties and any additional notice the court may direct, […]
§ 33-13-8.1. Distributions in kind in satisfaction of pecuniary bequests. (a) As used in this section, the terms “pecuniary bequests” and “transfer in trust of a pecuniary amount” mean, respectively, a bequest in a will or a transfer under a trust agreement of a specific amount of money, which amount is either expressly stated in […]
