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20 PA Cons Stat § 3534 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3534 - Distribution in kind

§ 3534. Distribution in kind. The court, for cause shown, may order the estate to be distributed in kind to the parties in interest, including fiduciaries. In such case, when there are two or more distributees, distribution may be made of undivided interests in real or personal estate or the personal representative or a distributee may request the court to divide, partition and allot the property, or to direct the sale of the property. If such a request is made, the court, after such notice as it shall direct, shall fairly divide, partition and allot the property among the distributees in proportion to their respective interests, or the court may direct the personal representative to sell at a sale confined to the distributees, or at a private or public sale not so confined, any property which cannot be so divided, partitioned or allotted.    Cross References. Section 3534 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3534.1 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3534.1 - Cost of distribution of tangible personal property

§ 3534.1. Cost of distribution of tangible personal property. Except as otherwise provided in the will, if any, the personal representative shall pay as an expense of administration the reasonable expenses of storage, insurance, packing and delivery of tangible personal property to a beneficiary.  (July 7, 2006, P.L.625, No.98, eff. 60 days)   2006 Amendment. Act 98 added section 3534.1.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3535 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3535 - Delivery of possession of real estate

§ 3535. Delivery of possession of real estate. Upon application of any party in interest and after such notice as the court shall direct, the court may order the personal representative to deliver to any distributee possession of any real estate to which he is entitled, provided that claimants and other distributees are not prejudiced thereby. The personal representative shall cease to be responsible for the maintenance of such real estate unless and until possession of it is returned to him with his consent or by order of court. The court, at any time prior to a final decree approving the distribution, may order the distributee to return the possession of any such real estate to the personal representative or may require the distributee to give security for the rents or rental value pending a decree of distribution.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3536 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3536 - Recording and registering decrees awarding real estate

§ 3536. Recording and registering decrees awarding real estate. A certified copy of every adjudication or decree awarding real estate or an appropriate excerpt from either of them shall be recorded, at the expense of the estate, in the deed book in the office of the recorder of deeds of each county where the real estate so awarded lies, shall be indexed by the recorder in the grantor's index under the name of the decedent and in the grantee's index under the name of the distributee, and shall be registered in the survey bureau or with the proper authorities empowered to keep a register of real estate in the county: Provided, That no adjudication or decree awarding real estate subject to the payment of any sum by the distributee shall be recorded or registered unless there is offered for recording, concurrently therewith, written evidence of the payment of such sum.    Cross References. Section 3536 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533, 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3537 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3537 - Compensation

§ 3537. Compensation. The court shall allow such compensation to the personal representative as shall in the circumstances be reasonable and just, and may calculate such compensation on a graduated percentage.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3538 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3538 - Distributions involving persons born out of wedlock

§ 3538. Distributions involving persons born out of wedlock. A personal representative may administer an estate on the assumption that no person born out of wedlock is entitled to share as a distributee unless the personal representative has knowledge or has received notice that such a person with possible distributee's rights exists. If a personal representative has distributed an estate, or part thereof, in good faith without knowledge of a person born out of wedlock who has rights as a distributee, said distribution actually made shall not impose liability on the personal representative. Except as herein otherwise provided, a person born out of wedlock shall have the same rights in an estate and shall be subject to such time limitations and to such procedures as are applied to any other heir or claimant against an estate.  (Nov. 26, 1978, P.L.1269, No.303, eff. imd.)   1978 Amendment. Act 303 added section 3538.  Cross References. Section 3538 is referred to in section 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3539 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3539 - Change in law after pattern of distribution established

§ 3539. Change in law after pattern of distribution established. A personal representative shall have no liability for continued distribution of real or personal property in accordance with a pattern of distribution that conformed to the law in effect when distribution began, notwithstanding any intervening change in law that would require a different pattern of distribution, unless he is actually aware, after the law is changed, of information relevant to the change in the rights of interested parties or otherwise fails to act reasonably in ascertaining such rights. Nothing in this section shall in any way affect any cause of action which the parties in interest may have among themselves.  (July 11, 1980, P.L.565, No.118, eff. 60 days; Oct. 12, 1984, P.L.929, No.182, eff. imd.)    Cross References. Section 3539 is referred to in section 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3540 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3540 - Absentee and additional distributees

 § 3540. Absentee and additional distributees. (a) Distributions due absentees.-- (1) If the continued existence or whereabouts of an heir, devisee or legatee who once existed cannot be ascertained at the time of the audit of the personal representative's account, the court, unless it finds pursuant to section 5701 (relating to proof of death) that the absentee's death has disqualified him as a distributee of the estate, or unless a trustee has been appointed for such absentee pursuant to section 5702 (relating to trustee for absentee), shall direct that any property distributable to the absentee shall be converted into money that shall be paid into the State Treasury, through the Department of Revenue. The moneys shall be held in a custodial capacity subject to refund, without appropriation, pursuant to section 24 of Article III of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.  (2) The court shall retain jurisdiction with respect to any claim to such moneys. Upon further findings and order of court that a claimant is entitled to all or a part of the moneys, the Department of Revenue, upon petition, shall refund such moneys pursuant to the order of court.  (b) Possibility of additional distributees.--If the existence of a person or persons would affect the distribution of an estate but there is no proof that such a person ever existed, and the court is satisfied that all reasonable steps have been taken to determine whether such a person existed, the court may award distribution of the estate to those who would be entitled if no such person existed, with or without refunding bonds. Any such bond shall be without security, shall be in such form and amount as the court directs, shall be executed by each distributee and filed with the clerk, and shall provide that if, within seven years or any shorter period fixed by the court, it is later established that there is an additional person or persons entitled to share in the distribution of the estate, the distributee upon demand will return such portion or all of the property received by him as the court may direct or, if it has been disposed of, will make such restitution as the court deems equitable. In the case of distribution under this subsection to the Commonwealth as intestate heir, in lieu of bond, payment shall be as provided in subsection (a).  (July 11, 1980, P.L.565, No.118, eff. imd.; Oct. 12, 1984, P.L.929, No.182, eff. imd.)   Cross References. Section 3540 is referred to in section 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3541 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3541 - Order of abatement

 § 3541. Order of abatement. (a) General rules.--Except as otherwise provided by the will, if the assets are insufficient to pay all claimants and distributees in full, the shares of distributees, without distinction between real and personal estate, shall have priority of distribution in the following order:  (1) Property specifically devised or bequeathed to or for the benefit of the surviving spouse.  (2) Property specifically devised or bequeathed to or for the benefit of the decedent's issue.  (3) Property specifically devised or bequeathed to or for the benefit of other distributees. (4) Property disposed of by will in the form of a general bequest of cash, stocks or bonds. (5) Property disposed of by general devise or bequest and not included in a residuary clause.  (6) Property devised or bequeathed in a residuary clause. (7) Property not disposed of by the will. (b) Demonstrative legacies.--Property out of which a demonstrative legacy is primarily to be paid shall be deemed to be specifically devised or bequeathed to the extent of such demonstrative legacy.    Cross References. Section 3541 is referred to in sections 3542, 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3542 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3542 - Contribution

§ 3542. Contribution. The court may make orders of contribution among legatees or devisees to accomplish an abatement in accordance with the provisions of section 3541 (relating to order of abatement), and may determine whether the amount thereof shall be paid before distribution or shall constitute a lien on particular property which is distributed.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3543 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3543 - Income on distributive shares

 § 3543. Income on distributive shares. (a) Pecuniary legacy.--A pecuniary legacy bequeathed in trust shall be entitled to income at the rate of 5% per annum from the death of the decedent until the payment of the legacy, and when not in trust from one year after the death of the decedent until the payment of the legacy.  (b) Specific legacy or devise.--A specific legatee or devisee shall be entitled to the net income from property given to him accrued from the date of the death of the decedent.  (c) Demonstrative legacy.--A demonstrative legacy shall be entitled to income from the death of the decedent until the payment of the legacy at the rate earned by the property out of which it is primarily payable, and to the extent that it is not paid from that source, at the rate of 5% per annum from one year after the death of the decedent until the payment of the legacy.  (d) Residuary legacy or devise.--All income from real and personal estate earned during the period of administration and not payable to others pursuant to the governing instrument or this section shall be distributed pro rata among the income beneficiaries of any trust created out of the residuary estate and the other persons entitled to the residuary estate.  (e) Future date.--A legacy payable at a future date, unless earlier set aside as a separate trust, shall not begin to bear income until three months after the date fixed for payment or delivery.  (f) Relationship.--Income shall be paid on distributive shares with no distinction because of the relationship of the distributee to the decedent.  (g) Testamentary provisions.--All rules set forth in this section are subject to the provisions of the decedent's will.   (July 11, 1980, P.L.565, No.118, eff. imd.; July 7, 2006, P.L.625, No.98, eff. 60 days)    Cross References. Section 3543 is referred to in sections 7799, 8121 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3544 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3544 - Liability of personal representative for interest

§ 3544. Liability of personal representative for interest. A personal representative who has committed a breach of duty with respect to estate assets shall, in the discretion of the court, be liable for interest, not exceeding the legal rate on such assets.    Cross References. Section 3544 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3545 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3545 - Transcripts of balances due by personal representative

 § 3545. Transcripts of balances due by personal representative. (a) Filing in common pleas.--The prothonotary of any court of common pleas shall, on demand of any party in interest, file and docket a certified transcript or extract from the record showing that an orphans' court division has adjudged an amount to be due by a personal representative, and such transcript or extract shall constitute a judgment against the personal representative from the time of its filing with the same effect as if it had been obtained in an action in the trial or civil division of the court of common pleas. If the amount adjudged to be due by the personal representative shall be increased or decreased on appeal, the prothonotary shall, if the decree of the appellate court is certified to him, change his records accordingly, and if the appellate court has increased the amount, the excess shall constitute a judgment against the personal representative from the time when the records are so changed.  (b) Satisfaction and discharge.--If the orphans' court division shall order the personal representative to be relieved from any such judgment, the prothonotary shall, on demand of any party in interest, enter on his records a certified copy of such order, which shall operate as a satisfaction of the judgment.   (Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293, eff. imd.)   1974 Amendment. Act 293 amended subsec. (a).  Cross References. Section 3545 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533, 7799.2 of this title.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3551 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3551 - Enforcement of payment

§ 3551. Enforcement of payment. When a sum of money is charged upon real or personal property by will, inter vivos trust or decree, and has become payable, the court having jurisdiction of the estate or trust, upon petition of a party in interest and after notice to all persons liable for its payment and to the owner of the property charged, may enter a decree directing payment by the person liable, and in default of payment, may direct the fiduciary or a trustee to be appointed to sell the property charged, or so much of it as shall be necessary, upon such terms and security as the court shall direct, in which event the proceeds of the sale shall be distributed under the direction of the court as in other cases of judicial sales, to the persons legally entitled to receive them.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3552 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3552 - Discharge of portion of property from charges payable in the future

§ 3552. Discharge of portion of property from charges payable in the future. When a sum of money is charged upon real or personal property by will, inter vivos trust or decree, and is payable at a future date, the court having jurisdiction of the estate or trust, upon petition of a party in interest and after such notice as it shall direct, aided by the report of a master if necessary, or at the audit of any accounting, may enter a decree not contrary to any expressed provision in the will or trust instrument, exonerating and discharging such portion of the real and personal property charged as to it may seem beyond the amount requisite for providing a sufficient continuing security for the payment of the charge, or may direct that excess income be accumulated for the further protection of the charge, or be distributed to the persons entitled thereto. When an annuity is not restricted by the will or trust instrument to the income of the property charged with its payment, the court may authorize the payment of the annuity from the principal of the property set apart to secure its payment, should income at any time prove insufficient.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3553 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3553 - Discharge of property from lien of charge

 § 3553. Discharge of property from lien of charge. (a) Payment into court.--When real or personal property by will, inter vivos trust or decree is subject to a charge which has become payable, the court which has jurisdiction of the estate or trust, upon petition of a party in interest and after such notice as it shall direct, shall enter a decree fixing the amount of the charge then payable, and directing that it be paid into court and that upon such payment the property shall be discharged from so much of the charge as shall be paid into court. When the amount of the charge does not appear as a matter of record, the court, by appointment of a master or by investigation in open court, may ascertain and fix the amount. A certified copy of every decree relieving real property of the lien of a charge shall be recorded in the deed book in the office of the recorder of deeds of each county where the real estate shall lie, and shall be indexed by the recorder in the grantor's index under the name of the decedent or settlor, as the case may be, and in the grantee's index under the name of the owner of the land: Provided, That no conditional decree shall be recorded unless there is offered for recording, concurrently therewith, written evidence of compliance with the condition.  (b) Distribution of moneys paid into court.--Any money paid into court under the provisions of this section, subject to the laws of the Commonwealth relating to the payment of unclaimed funds into the State Treasury without escheat, shall remain there until the court, on petition of a party in interest and after such notice as it shall direct, aided by the report of a master if necessary, shall direct distribution to the persons entitled. The court may, in its discretion, appoint an auditor to make such distribution.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3554 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution|Section 3554 - Presumption of payment, release or extinguishment

§ 3554. Presumption of payment, release or extinguishment. (a) Lapse of 20 years.--When:  (1) for 20 years after the same or any part thereof becomes due, no payment has been made on account of a dower, recognizance, legacy, annuity instalment, or other charge, created by will, agreement, inter vivos trust or court decree, upon real property; or  (2) no proceeding has been brought or no written acknowledgment of the existence thereof or no written promise to pay the same has been made within such period by the owner or owners of the property subject to the charge;  a release or extinguishment thereof shall be presumed, and the charge shall thereafter be irrecoverable.  (b) Perpetuation of evidence.--The evidence of any such payment or written acknowledgment or promise may be perpetuated by recording it in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county or counties in which the real property bound by the charge is situate. The recorder of deeds shall index such evidence in the grantor's index under the name of the record owner or owners of the real property and in the grantee's index under the name of the owner or owners of the charge.  (c) Renewal of evidence every 20 years.--If such evidence of the charge is so recorded and indexed within the said period of 20 years, it shall remain a charge on the real property for a period of 20 years from the time of indexing and no longer: Provided, That such evidence may be renewed within successive periods of 20 years, as often as necessary.  (d) Irrecoverable after 20 years.--If such evidence does not appear of record and is not indexed as herein provided within a period of 20 years or within the periods provided for a renewal thereof, then said dower, recognizance, legacy, annuity instalment, or other charge shall be irrecoverable from any purchaser, mortgagee, or other lien creditor.
20 PA Cons Stat § 3701 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES|Chapter 37 - Apportionment of Death Taxes|Section 3701 - Power of decedent

§ 3701. Power of decedent. A testator, settlor, donor or possessor of any appropriate power of appointment may direct how the Federal estate tax or the Federal generation-skipping transfer tax due because of his death, including interest and penalties, shall be apportioned or may grant a discretionary power to another so to direct, but:  (1) any direction regarding apportionment of the Federal generation-skipping transfer tax must expressly refer to that tax; and  (2) any direction waiving the right of recovery of Federal estate tax, provided for under section 2207A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 2207A), on property includable in the gross estate by reason of section 2044 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, must expressly refer to that right.  Any such direction shall take precedence over the provisions of this chapter insofar as the direction provides for the payment of the tax or any part thereof from property the disposition of which can be controlled by the instrument containing the direction or delegating the power to another.   (Dec. 16, 1992, P.L.1163, No.152, eff. imd.; Dec. 1, 1994, P.L.655, No.102, eff. 60 days; May 16, 2002, P.L.330, No.50, eff. 60 days)    2002 Amendment. See section 14(a) of Act 50 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to applicability.  Cross References. Section 3701 is referred to in sections 3702, 3705 of this title.