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The administrator of an estate is a legal term referring to a person appointed by a court to administer the estate of a deceased person who left no will. [1] Where a person dies intestate, i.e., without a will, the court may appoint a person to settle their debts, pay any necessary taxes and funeral expenses, and distribute the remainder according to the procedure set down by law.
Some states require the executor to personally inventory and report the decedent’s assets within a certain time period, such as within 90 days from the date of death.
As of August 2024, 96 people were on Pennsylvania's death row, all of whom are male. [16] 74% of inmates in Pennsylvania who are on death row have been on it for more than 10 years. [17] Some inmates who were facing death row have received re-trials or different sentencing strategies due to the 2015 moratorium. [18]
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.
Being the executor or administrator of the deceased’s estate, but only in states that require executors or administrators to pay off debt from property jointly owned by the surviving and ...
In the United States, the common law rule has been abolished by statute in Alaska, Idaho, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, [22] Kentucky, [23] Rhode Island, [24] and South Dakota. [ 25 ] A new US Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities was published in 1986 that adopts the wait-and-see approach with a flat waiting period of 90 years in place of ...
Judicial judgment of debt, Greene County, Pennsylvania, 1815. The official reporter for the Supreme Court is the Pennsylvania State Reports since 1845. There are no official reporters for either the Superior Court or the Commonwealth Court, but the Pennsylvania Reporter (a Pennsylvania-specific version of the Atlantic Reporter) is an unofficial ...
'My house is unsellable': This Pennsylvania woman bought cheap land from the state for $15,000 — but didn't know a previous owner sold it due to a landslide, report says