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58 OK Stat § 58-217 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-217. Account, special administrator must render.

|The special administrator must render an account, on oath of his proceedings, in like manner as other administrators are required to do. The special administrator shall be entitled to a fee to be determined by the court in its discretion, which fee shall in no event exceed the fee allowed to an executor or administrator pursuant to Section 527 of this title. |R.L. 1910, § 6288; Laws 1992, c. 395, § 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.
58 OK Stat § 58-218 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-218. Letters of administration revoked on proof of will.

|If, after granting letters of administration on the ground of intestacy, a will of the decedent is duly proved and allowed by the court, the letters of administration must be revoked, and the power of the administrator ceases, and he must render an account of his administration within such time as the court shall direct. |R.L.1910, § 6289.
58 OK Stat § 58-219 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-219. Rights of executor or administrator with will annexed.

|In such case, the executor or the administrator with the will annexed, is entitled to demand, sue for, recover and collect all the rights, goods, chattels, debts and effects of the decedent remaining unadministered, and may prosecute to final judgment any suit commenced by the administrator before the revocation of his letters of administration. |R.L.1910, § 6290.
58 OK Stat § 58-220 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-220. Surviving executor or administrator - Duties.

|In case any one of several executors or administrators, to whom letters are granted, dies, becomes an incapacitated or partially incapacitated person as such terms are defined by Section 1-111 of Title 30 of the Oklahoma Statutes, is convicted of an infamous crime, or otherwise becomes incapable of executing the trust, or in case the letters testamentary or of administration are revoked or annulled, with respect to any one executor or administrator, the remaining executor or administrator must proceed to complete the execution of the will or administration. |R.L. 1910, § 6291. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 246, § 23, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.
58 OK Stat § 58-221 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-221. New administrator appointed, when.

|If all such executors or administrators die or become incapable, or the power and authority of all of them are revoked, the proper court must issue letters of administration, with the will annexed or otherwise, to the widow or next in kin, or others, in the same order and manner as is directed in relation to original letters of administration. The administrators so appointed must give bond in the like penalty, with like sureties and conditions as hereinbefore required of administrators, and shall have the like power and authority. |R.L.1910, § 6292.
58 OK Stat § 58-231 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-231. Resignation and settlement - Revoking letters.

|Any executor or administrator may, at any time, by writing, filed in the district court, resign his appointment, having first settled his account and delivered up all the estate to the person whom the court shall appoint to receive the same. If, however, by reason of any delays in such settlement and delivering up of the estate, or for any other cause, the circumstances of the estate or the rights of those interested therein require it, the court may at any time before the settlement of accounts and delivering up of the estate is completed, revoke the letters of such executor or administrator, and appoint in his stead an administrator, either special or general, in the same manner as directed in relation to original letters of administration. The liability of the outgoing executor or administrator, or of the sureties on his bond, shall not be in any manner discharged, released or affected by such appointment or resignation. |R.L.1910, § 6293.
58 OK Stat § 58-232 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-232. Acts before revocation of letters are valid.

|All acts of executor or administrator, as such, before the revocation of his letters testamentary or of administration, are as valid, to all intents and purposes, as if such executor or administrator had continued lawfully to execute the duties of his trust. |R.L.1910, § 6294; Laws 1953, p. 235, § 14.
58 OK Stat § 58-233 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-233. Proof of appointment.

|A transcript from the minutes of the court, showing the appointment of any person as executor or administrator, together with the certificate of the judge, under his hand and the seal of his court, that such person has given bond and qualified, and that letters testamentary or of administration have been issued to him and have not been revoked, shall have the same effect in evidence as the letters themselves. |R.L.1910, § 6295.
58 OK Stat § 58-234 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-234. Duty of judge in case of embezzlement - Reports.

|A. Whenever the judge has reason to believe, from his own knowledge or from credible information, that any executor or administrator has wasted, embezzled or mismanaged, or is about to waste, or embezzle the property of the estate committed to his charge, or has committed or is about to commit a fraud upon the estate, or is incompetent to act or has wrongfully neglected the estate, or has long neglected to perform any act as such executor or administrator, he must, by an order entered upon the minutes of the court, suspend the powers of such executor or administrator until the matter is investigated. |B. If the judge determines on his own motion, or upon application by an interested party and upon proper showing, that an executor or administrator is subject to a conflict of interest which substantially impairs the executor's or administrator's ability to perform his duties as required by law, the judge shall suspend the powers of the executor or administrator with respect to the subject matter of the conflict of interest and appoint a special administrator to act with respect to such subject matter. The executor or administrator shall remain empowered to act with respect to all other matters.C. The judge of the district court shall require each and every administrator, executor or guardian to make a report at least once in each year, showing the condition of the estate, and of all property, notes, monies, and other assets in his hands and the use that has been made thereof during the past year.R.L. 1910, § 6296; Laws 1992, c. 395, § 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.
58 OK Stat § 58-235 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-235. Citation on suspension - Revocation of letters.

|When such suspension is made, notice thereof must be given to the executor or administrator, and he must be cited to appear and show cause why his letters should not be revoked. If he fail to appear in obedience to the citation, or, if appearing, the court is satisfied there exists cause for his removal, his letters must be revoked, and letters of administration granted anew as the case may require. |R.L.1910, § 6297.
58 OK Stat § 58-236 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-236. Hearing of the issues.

|At the hearing, any person interested in the estate may appear and file his allegations in writing, showing that the executor or administrator should be removed, to which the executor or administrator may demur or answer, as hereinbefore provided, and the court must hear and determine the issues raised. |R.L.1910, § 6298.
58 OK Stat § 58-237 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-237. Attendance of executor or administrator may be compelled.

|In the proceedings authorized by the preceding three sections, for the removal of an executor or administrator, the court may compel his attendance by attachment, and may compel him to answer questions, on oath, touching his administration, and upon his refusal to do so, may commit him until he obey, or may revoke his letters, or both. |R.L.1910, § 6299.
58 OK Stat § 58-238 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-238. Notice by publication, when.

|If any executor, administrator or guardian has absconded or conceals himself or has removed or absented himself from the state, notice may be given him of the pendency of any proceedings in which he is interested in any court, by such publication, or in such other manner as the court may direct, and the court may proceed upon such notice as if the citation had been personally served. |R.L.1910, § 6300; Laws 1969, c. 302, § 7, eff. Jan. 1, 1970.
58 OK Stat § 58-239 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-239. Petition - Consent - Orders to be entered - Withdrawal of waivers or consents - Consent not required, when.

|A. After the appointment of the personal representative, and, provided that a determination of the identities of the heirs, devisees and legatees of the decedent has been made pursuant to the provisions of Section 240 of this title, and upon the filing of a petition or application, the petition to be accompanied by acknowledged, written consents by all heirs, devisees and legatees, other than contingent devisees and legatees, persons authorized to act on behalf of any heir, devisee or legatee under any legal disability, and personal representatives of the estate of any deceased heir, devisee or legatee, the court may enter an order: |1. Authorizing the personal representative to sell, grant, lease, mortgage or encumber any real or personal property including mineral interests, and to execute and issue deeds, leases, bills of sale, notes, mortgages, easements and other documents of conveyance, without further judicial authorization or a return of sale or confirmation of such sale or transaction. Any sale or transaction so authorized shall pass title to the purchaser without being confirmed by the court, notwithstanding any statutory provision to the contrary; or2. Waiving the filing of any accounting specified in the consents of the persons herein named, or waiving the necessity for presentation to the court for approval of any such accounting.B. Waivers or consents may be withdrawn at any time and thereafter all acts shall be in accordance with regular statutory procedures. A withdrawal of a waiver or consent shall be effected by filing a written statement of withdrawal with the court clerk and by serving a certified copy on the personal representative or the attorney for the personal representative by certified mail.C. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the petition or application is filed after three (3) months from the date of admission of the will to probate, and no appeal of the admission of the will is pending nor has any contest to admission of the will to probate been filed after admission of the will to probate, and if the will contains a residuary disposition clause, then the consents of heirs who are neither devisees nor legatees shall not be required.Added by Laws 1980, c. 310, § 7, eff. Oct. 1, 1980. Amended by Laws 1989, c. 276, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1993, c. 345, § 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 2010, c. 44, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.
58 OK Stat § 58-240 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-240. Determination of heirs, devisees and legatees under certain circumstances - Hearing without notice.

|A. If a petition is filed for the appointment of a personal representative and the petitioner requests that the identity of the heirs, devisees and legatees be determined at the initial hearing and the notice of hearing such petition reflects such request, then at the first hearing on a petition to admit a will to probate or a petition for the appointment of a personal representative in an intestate proceeding, the court may determine the identity of all heirs, devisees and legatees, and any guardian or conservator of any minor or incompetent heir, devisee or legatee. |B. If the petition filed for the appointment of a personal representative or the notice of hearing such petition does not contain or reflect a request that the identity of the heirs, devisees and legatees be determined at the initial hearing, the personal representative may, at any time during the course of administration, file with the court a petition requesting that the identity of the heirs, devisees and legatees be determined. Such petition shall be heard following at least ten (10) days' prior notice to the heirs, devisees and legatees.C. If the petition requests the appointment of an administrator and the court determines that the petition can be heard without notice pursuant to the provisions of Section 128 of this title, and the petition also contains a request that the identity of the heirs of the intestate decedent be determined, the court may proceed to appoint the administrator without notice and set such petition for hearing, following at least ten (10) days' prior notice to the heirs, with respect to the request that the identity of the heirs, legatees and devisees be determined.D. Any determination of heirs, legatees and devisees made pursuant to this section shall be conclusive for the purpose of acting upon any petition or application purporting to include waivers or consents of all heirs, devisees and legatees, but shall not establish the proportional interest of any person entitled to receive any distribution of assets or property from the estate; nor shall it prevent any person or entity from later establishing identity or rights as an heir, devisee or legatee.Laws 1980, c. 310, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1980; Laws 1991, c. 148, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
58 OK Stat § 58-242 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-242. Probate of will as conclusive.

|If no person within sixty (60) days after the will has been admitted to probate contests the same or the validity thereof, the probate of the will is conclusive. |Laws 1961, p. 442, § 2.
58 OK Stat § 58-243 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-243. Limitation of claims.

|All creditors having claims against the decedent shall present their claims, as provided in Sections 333 and 334 of this title, by the presentment date stated in the notice to creditors or combined notice or the same will be forever barred. |Amended by Laws 1988, c. 228, § 3, emerg. eff. June 22, 1988.
58 OK Stat § 58-247 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-247. Petition for summary administration - Hearing - Order.

|A. At the hearing, the court shall hear objections from all persons who timely filed objections. If the court determines that summary proceedings are appropriate, the court may, after proof of payment of funeral expenses, expenses of last sickness and of administration and allowed claims, issue an order approving the petition for summary administration, finding that the will has been proved as required by law, admitting the will attached to the petition to probate, allowing the final accounting, determining heirship and the legatees and devisees, if any, of the decedent, distributing the property of the estate and discharging the personal representative and surety or sureties on the personal representative's bond, or defer such discharge if in the discretion of the court such deferral is necessary or desirable. |B. The order of the court shall have the same force and effect as a final decree or order rendered in any other proceeding provided in this title for distribution of the estate of a decedent. A certified copy of the order or a notice of the order as set forth in Section 711 of Title 58 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall be filed and recorded in the records of the county clerk in any county where real property in which the decedent had any right, title, or interest is located.Added by Laws 1998, c. 359, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.
58 OK Stat § 58-251 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-251. Powers and duties of executors and administrators.

|The executor or administrator must take into his possession all the estate of the decedent, real and personal, except the homestead and personal property not assets, and collect all debts due to the decedent or to the estate. For the purpose of bringing suits to quiet title or for partition of such estate, the possession of the executors or administrators, is the possession of the heirs or devisees; such possession by the heirs or devisees is subject, however, to the possession of the executor or administrator, for the purpose of administration, as provided in this chapter. |R.L.1910, § 6301.
58 OK Stat § 58-252 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-252. Actions.

|Actions for the recovery of any property, real or personal, or for the possession thereof, and all actions founded upon contracts, may be maintained by and against executors and administrators in all cases and in the same courts in which the same might have been maintained by or against their respective testators and intestates. |R.L.1910, § 6302.
58 OK Stat § 58-253 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-253. Action for waste, trespass and conversion.

|Executors and administrators may in like manner maintain actions against any person who has wasted, destroyed, taken or carried away, or converted to his own use, the goods of their testator or intestate in his lifetime. They must also maintain actions for trespass committed on the real estate of the decedent in his lifetime. |R.L.1910, § 6303.
58 OK Stat § 58-254 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-254. Certain actions against representatives.

|Any person, or his personal representatives, may maintain an action against the executor or administrator of any testator or intestate who in his lifetime had wasted, destroyed, taken, or carried away, or converted to his own use, the goods or chattels of any such person or committed any trespass on the real estate of such person. |R.L.1910, § 6304.
58 OK Stat § 58-256 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-256. Action against predecessor.

|An administrator may, in his own name, for the use and benefit of all parties interested in the estate, maintain actions on the bond of an executor, or of any former administrator of the same estate. |R.L.1910, § 6306.
58 OK Stat § 58-257 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-257. Joinder of parties.

|In actions by or against executors, it is not necessary to join those as parties to whom letters were issued, but who have not qualified. |R.L.1910, § 6307.
58 OK Stat § 58-258 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-258. Compromise with debtors allowable.

|Whenever a debtor of a decedent is unable to pay all his debts, the executor or administrator, with the approbation of the judge of the district court, may compound with him, and give him a discharge upon receiving a fair and just dividend of his effects. A compromise may also be authorized, when it appears to be just and for the best interest of the estate. |R.L.1910, § 6308.
58 OK Stat § 58-259 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-259. Fraudulent conveyances, recovery of.

|When there is a deficiency of assets in the hands of the executor or administrator, and when the decedent, in his lifetime, has conveyed any real estate, or any rights or interests therein, with intent to defraud his creditors, or to avoid any right, debt or duty of any person, or has so conveyed such estate that by law the deeds or conveyances are void as against creditors, the executor or administrator must commence and prosecute to final judgment any proper action for the recovery of the same, and may recover for the benefit of the creditors all such real estate so fraudulently conveyed; and he may also, for the benefit of the creditors, sue and recover all goods, chattels, rights or credits which have been so conveyed by the decedent in his lifetime, whatever may have been the manner of such fraudulent conveyance. |R.L.1910, § 6309.
58 OK Stat § 58-260 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-260. Creditors must secure costs.

|No executor or administrator is bound to sue for such estate as mentioned in the preceding section, for the benefit of the creditors, unless on application of creditors, who must pay such part of the costs and expenses of the suit, or give such security therefor to the executor or administrator, as the judge shall direct. |R.L.1910, § 6310.
58 OK Stat § 58-261 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-261. Sale of realty recovered.

|All real estate so recovered must be sold for the payment of debts, in the same manner as if the decedent had died seized thereof, upon obtaining an order therefor from the district court; and the proceeds of all goods, chattels, rights and credits so recovered must be appropriated in the payment of the debts of the decedent, in the same manner as other property in the hand of the executor or administrator. |R.L.1910, § 6311.
58 OK Stat § 58-262 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-262. Foreign executors and administrators - Right of action - Proof of authority - Security - Release of mortgages.

|It shall be lawful for any person or persons to whom letters testamentary or of administration have been granted, by the proper authority in any of the United States or the territories thereof, to maintain or defend any suit or action, and to prosecute and recover any claim in the courts of the State of Oklahoma, in the same manner as if the letters testamentary or of administration had been granted to such person by the proper authority in this state, and the letters testamentary or of administration, or a copy thereof, certified under the seal of the authority granting the same, shall be sufficient evidence to prove the granting thereof, and that the person therein named has administration; Provided, that the courts in which any action may be brought by any nonresident executor or administrator shall have power, and such power is hereby given to the said court, upon motion, to require from such person the security required by law in a like case from a resident administrator or executor; Provided, further, that such executor or administrator shall have the authority to release mortgages in this state upon filing with the county clerk of the county in which such mortgage is recorded a showing properly certified to that such executor or administrator is the duly qualified and acting executor or administrator of such estate. |R.L.1910, § 6312; Laws 1915, c. 39, § 1.