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20 PA Cons Stat § 3382 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3382 - Judgments which are liens at death

§ 3382. Judgments which are liens at death. Any judgment which at the decedent's death was a lien on real estate then owned by him or on real estate which he had conveyed by deed not recorded during his life shall continue to bind the real estate for five years from the inception or last revival of the lien or for one year from the decedent's death, whichever shall be longer, although the judgment be not revived after his death. During this period, the judgment shall rank according to its priority at the time of death, and after this period, it shall not continue to be a lien on the real estate, unless revived. Any judgment against the decedent which is a lien on real estate aliened by him may be revived by an action of scire facias brought against the decedent, but before any judgment shall be entered thereon, the personal representative shall be made a party defendant and served with process in the action.    Cross References. Section 3382 is referred to in section 3385 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3383 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3383 - Statutes of limitations; claims not barred at death

§ 3383. Statutes of limitations; claims not barred at death. The death of a person shall not stop the running of the statute of limitations applicable to any claim against him, but a claim which otherwise would be barred within one year after the death of the decedent shall not be barred until the expiration of one year after his death. Nothing in this section shall be construed to shorten the period which would have been allowed by any applicable statute of limitations if the decedent had continued to live.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3384 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3384 - Notice of claim

 § 3384. Notice of claim. (a) Written notice.--Written notice of any claim against a decedent given to the personal representative or his attorney of record before the claim is barred shall toll the statute of limitations.  (b) Acts equivalent to written notice.--Any of the following acts by a claimant shall be equivalent to the giving of written notice of a claim to the personal representative:  (1) Instituting proceedings to compel the filing of an account. (2) Bringing an action against the personal representative in any court having jurisdiction of the claim and having the writ or pleading duly served on the personal representative.  (3) Substituting the personal representative as a defendant in an action pending against the decedent.  (4) Receiving a written acknowledgment by the personal representative or his attorney of record of the existence of the claim.    Cross References. Section 3384 is referred to in section 7755 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3384.1 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3384.1 - Notice after settlor of revocable trust has died

§ 3384.1. Notice after settlor of revocable trust has died. No later than 30 days after the date on which the trustee of a revocable trust learns that a personal representative has been appointed for the deceased settlor's estate, the trustee shall send to the settlor's personal representative the notice described in section 7780.3(i) (relating to duty to inform and report).   (July 7, 2006, P.L.625, No.98, eff. 120 days)   2006 Amendment. Act 98 added section 3384.1.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3385 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3385 - Limitation upon claims

§ 3385. Limitation upon claims. All claims against the decedent, subject only to the provisions of section 3381 (relating to liens and charges existing at death not impaired) and section 3382 (relating to judgments which are liens at death), shall become unenforceable after one year from the decedent's death against a bona fide grantee of, or holder of a lien on, real property of the decedent who has acquired his interest for value from or through those entitled to the property by will or by intestacy, either:  (1) more than one year after the death of the decedent and when no letters issued in the Commonwealth upon the decedent's estate were in effect; or  (2) within such year if no letters upon the decedent's estate have been issued in the Commonwealth during that year.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the right of a personal representative subsequently appointed to recover from the heir or devisee the value of property so sold or encumbered.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3386 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3386 - Failure to present claim at audit

§ 3386. Failure to present claim at audit. If any claimant whose claim is not reported to the court by the personal representative as an admitted claim shall fail to present it at the call for audit or confirmation, he shall not be entitled to receive any share of the real and personal estate distributed pursuant to such audit or confirmation, whether the estate of the decedent be solvent or insolvent.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3387 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3387 - Claims not due; certain to become due

§ 3387. Claims not due; certain to become due. Upon satisfactory proof or admission of a claim which is not due but certain to become due, the court may provide for payment by one of the following methods:  (1) Awarding the present value of the claim, as agreed to by the claimant and the personal representative.  (2) Ordering the personal representative to retain or pay into the court sufficient assets to pay on maturity of the claim the whole amount then due, or a proportionate amount in case of insolvency.    Cross References. Section 3387 is referred to in section 7755 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3388 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3388 - Claims not certain to become due

§ 3388. Claims not certain to become due. Upon satisfactory proof or admission of a claim which may or may not become due at a future time, the court may provide for payment by one of the following methods:  (1) Awarding the present value of the claim, as agreed to by the claimant and the personal representative.  (2) Ordering the personal representative to distribute the estate but to retain or pay into court sufficient assets to pay the claim, or a proportionate amount in case of insolvency, if and when it becomes absolute.  (3) Making such other provisions for the disposition or satisfaction of the claim as shall be equitable.    Cross References. Section 3388 is referred to in section 7755 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3389 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3389 - Claims subject to litigation in other courts

§ 3389. Claims subject to litigation in other courts. When any claim not proved in the orphans' court division is being litigated in any other division or court, State or Federal, having jurisdiction thereof, the court may make such provision for the disposition or satisfaction of the claim as shall be equitable.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3390 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3390 - Specific performance of contracts

 § 3390. Specific performance of contracts. (a) Application to court.--If any person makes a legally binding agreement to purchase or sell real or personal estate and dies before its consummation, his personal representative shall have power to consummate it, but if he does not do so, the court, on the application of any party in interest and after such notice and with such security, if any, as it may direct, in its discretion, may order specific performance of the agreement if it would have been enforced specifically had the decedent not died.  (b) Execution and effect of deed or transfer.--Any necessary deed or transfer shall be executed by the personal representative or by such other person as the court shall direct. The title of any purchaser under an agreement in which the decedent was the vendor shall be the same as though the decedent had conveyed or transferred such property in his lifetime.  (c) Indexing in judgment or ejectment and miscellaneous indexes.--When any petition for specific performance of an agreement to purchase or sell real estate is filed, the prothonotary of the court of common pleas where the real estate or any part of it lies, upon the receipt of a certificate of such fact by the clerk of the court where the petition was filed, shall enter the petition upon either the judgment or ejectment and miscellaneous indexes against the defendants as directed by local rules of court and shall certify it as lis pendens in any certificate of search which he is required to make by virtue of his office.    Cross References. Section 3390 is referred to in sections 3546, 5521 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3391 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3391 - Proceeding against personal representative

§ 3391. Proceeding against personal representative. Any proceeding may be brought against a personal representative or the surety on his bond in the county where his letters have been granted, and if the personal representative or surety does not reside in that county, process may be served on either of them personally, or as follows:  (1) When resident of another county.--By a duly deputized sheriff of any other county of the Commonwealth in which he shall be found.  (2) When a nonresident of the Commonwealth.--By the sheriff of the county where letters have been granted sending, by registered mail, return receipt requested, a true and attested copy of the process to the Department of State, accompanied by the fee prescribed by law, and to the personal representative or surety at his last known address, with an endorsement thereon showing that service has been so made upon the Department of State.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3392 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3392 - Classification and order of payment

§ 3392. Classification and order of payment. If the applicable assets of the estate are insufficient to pay all proper charges and claims in full, the personal representative, subject to any preference given by law to claims due the United States, shall pay them in the following order, without priority as between claims of the same class:  (1) The costs of administration. (2) The family exemption. (3) The costs of the decedent's funeral and burial, and the costs of medicines furnished to him within six months of his death, of medical or nursing services performed for him within that time, of hospital services including maintenance provided him within that time, of services provided under the medical assistance program provided within that time and of services performed for him by any of his employees within that time.  (4) The cost of a gravemarker. (5) Rents for the occupancy of the decedent's residence for six months immediately prior to his death.  (5.1) Claims by the Commonwealth and the political subdivisions of the Commonwealth. (6) All other claims. (Feb. 21, 2006, P.L.45, No.17, eff. imd.)   Cross References. Section 3392 is referred to in section 7755 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3393 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives|Section 3393 - Notice to Commonwealth and political subdivisions

§ 3393. Notice to Commonwealth and political subdivisions. When the Commonwealth or a political subdivision thereof has a claim for maintaining in an institution a person who has died in the institution, the personal representative, within three months after the grant of letters, shall give notice thereof to the Department of Revenue or to the proper officer of such political subdivision, as the case may be.    Cross References. Section 3393 is referred to in section 7755 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3501.1 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3501.1 - Accounting by personal representative

§ 3501.1. Accounting by personal representative. A personal representative may file his account at any time after four months from the first complete advertisement of the original grant of letters, but shall not file it earlier unless directed to do so by the court. A personal representative may be cited to file an account at any time after the expiration of six months from the first complete advertisement of the original grant of letters. A personal representative may be directed by the court to file an account of his administration at any time.   (Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293, eff. imd.)   1974 Amendment. Act 293 added section 3501.1.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3501.2 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3501.2 - Annexation of account of terminated trust, guardianship or agency

§ 3501.2. Annexation of account of terminated trust, guardianship or agency. A personal representative who has received property from a trustee, guardian or agent following the decedent's death may annex a copy of an account of the administration of the trust, guardianship or agency to an account filed by the personal representative covering the administration of the estate. If notice of the annexation of the account of the trust, guardianship or agency is given to the persons required to be notified of the filing of the account of the estate, confirmation of the account of the estate shall relieve both the personal representative and the trustee, guardian or agent of all liability to the persons so notified for transactions shown in the accounts so annexed to the same extent as if the annexed account had been separately filed and confirmed.  (Oct. 12, 1984, P.L.929, No.182, eff. imd.)   1984 Amendment. Act 182 added section 3501.2.  Cross References. Section 3501.2 is referred to in section 7799.1 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3502 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3502 - Where filed

§ 3502. Where filed. The account of the personal representative shall be filed in the office of the clerk. (Oct. 12, 1984, P.L.929, No.182, eff. imd.)
20 PA Cons Stat § 3503 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3503 - Notice to parties in interest

§ 3503. Notice to parties in interest. The personal representative shall give written notice of the filing of his account and of its call for audit or confirmation to every person known to the personal representative to have or assert an interest in the estate as beneficiary, heir, next of kin or claimant, unless the interest of such person has been satisfied or unless such person fails to respond to a demand under section 3532(b.1) (relating to at risk of personal representative).  (Dec. 16, 1992, P.L.1163, No.152, eff. imd.)   Cross References. Section 3503 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3511 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3511 - Audits in counties having separate orphans' court division

§ 3511. Audits in counties having separate orphans' court division. In any county having a separate orphans' court division, the account of a personal representative shall be examined and audited by the court without expense to the parties, except when all parties in interest in a pending proceeding shall nominate an auditor whom the court may in its discretion appoint.    Cross References. Section 3511 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533, 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3512 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3512 - Audits in counties having no separate orphans' court division

§ 3512. Audits in counties having no separate orphans' court division. In any county having no separate orphans' court division, the account of a personal representative shall be confirmed by the court or by the clerk, as local rules shall prescribe, if no objections are presented within a time fixed by general rule of court. If any party in interest shall object to the account, or shall request its reference to an auditor, the court, in its discretion, may appoint an auditor.    Cross References. Section 3512 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533, 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3513 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3513 - Statement of proposed distribution

§ 3513. Statement of proposed distribution. A personal representative filing an account shall file a statement of proposed distribution or a request that distribution be determined by the court or by an auditor, as local rules may prescribe. The statement of proposed distribution shall be in such form, and such notice thereof shall be given by advertisement or otherwise, and objections thereto may be made, as local rules prescribe.    Cross References. Section 3513 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533, 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3514 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3514 - Confirmation of account and approval of proposed distribution

§ 3514. Confirmation of account and approval of proposed distribution. No account shall be confirmed, or statement of proposed distribution approved, until an adjudication or a decree of distribution is filed in conformity with local rules by the court or by the clerk of the court, expressly confirming the account or approving the statement of proposed distribution and specifying or indicating by reference to the statement of proposed distribution the names of the persons to whom the balance available for distribution is awarded and the amount or share awarded to each.    Cross References. Section 3514 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533, 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3521 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3521 - Rehearing; relief granted

§ 3521. Rehearing; relief granted. If any party in interest shall, within five years after the final confirmation of any account of a personal representative, file a petition to review any part of the account or of an auditor's report, or of the adjudication, or of any decree of distribution, setting forth specifically alleged errors therein, the court shall give such relief as equity and justice shall require: Provided, That no such review shall impose liability on the personal representative as to any property which was distributed by him in accordance with a decree of court before the filing of the petition. The court or master considering the petition may include in his adjudication or report, findings of fact and of law as to the entire controversy, in pursuance of which a final order may be made.    Cross References. Section 3521 is referred to in sections 5163, 5167, 5533, 7798, 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3531 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3531 - Estates not exceeding $50,000

§ 3531. Estates not exceeding $50,000. When the gross real and personal estate of a decedent does not exceed the value of $50,000, the personal representative, after the expiration of one year from the date of the first complete advertisement of the grant of letters, may present his petition to the court with an annexed account showing the administration of the estate, the distribution theretofore made and suggesting the proper distribution of the estate not theretofore distributed. Thereupon, the court, upon satisfactory proof of notice to all known parties in interest, may approve the distribution theretofore made and order distribution of the assets not theretofore distributed and discharge the personal representative and his sureties from future liability without the expense of proceedings as in a formal account. The court may discharge only the surety from future liability, and may allow the personal representative to continue without surety upon condition that no further assets shall come into the possession of the personal representative until he files another bond, with sufficient surety, as required by the register.  (Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293, eff. imd.; Dec. 1, 1994, P.L.655, No.102, eff. 60 days; July 2, 2013, P.L.199, No.35, eff. 60 days)    2013 Amendment. Section 2 of Act 35 provided that the amendment of section 3531 shall apply to estates of decedents dying on or after the effective date of section 2.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3533 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3533 - Award upon final confirmation of account

§ 3533. Award upon final confirmation of account. A personal representative shall be relieved of liability with respect to all real and personal estate distributed in conformity with a decree of court or in accordance with rule of court after confirmation of an account. In making any such distribution, the personal representative shall not be entitled to demand refunding bonds from the distributees, except as provided by this title or as directed by the court.    Cross References. Section 3533 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533, 7799.2 of this title.