TITLE 15

UNIFORM PROBATE CODE

CHAPTER 3

PROBATE OF WILLS AND ADMINISTRATION

PART 7.

DUTIES AND POWERS OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES

15-3-704.  Personal representative to proceed without court order — Exception. A personal representative shall proceed expeditiously with the settlement and distribution of a decedent’s estate and, except as otherwise specified or ordered in regard to a supervised personal representative, do so without adjudication, order, or direction of the court, but he may invoke the jurisdiction of the court, in proceedings authorized by this code, to resolve questions concerning the estate or its administration.

History:

[I.C., sec. 15-3-704, as added by 1971, ch. 111, sec. 1, p. 233.]