Title 29, PROBATE

Sec. 2.5. (a) A personal representative is not required to execute and file a bond relating to the duties of the personal representative's office under this chapter unless: (1) the will provides for the execution and filing of a bond; or (2) the court finds, on the court's own mo…

Sec. 3. (a) Subject to section 2(d) of this chapter, a personal representative who administers an estate under this chapter may do the following without order of the court: (1) Retain assets owned by the decedent pending distribution or liquidation including those in which the re…

Sec. 3.2. (a) Not more than two (2) months after the appointment of a personal representative under this chapter, the personal representative shall prepare a verified inventory of the decedent's probate estate. The inventory may consist of at least one (1) written instrument. (b)…

Sec. 3.4. (a) This section applies to the distribution of real property by a personal representative to a devisee or heir under this chapter. (b) The conveyance subscribed by the personal representative under this section is sufficient to distribute all title in the real property…

Sec. 3.6. (a) This section applies to a conveyance of real property by a personal representative under this chapter. (b) The conveyance subscribed by the personal representative is sufficient to convey all title in the real property to the grantee if the conveyance includes subst…

Sec. 3.8. (a) A personal representative shall close an estate administered under this chapter as promptly as possible. (b) If a personal representative does not file a closing statement under section 4 of this chapter within one (1) year after the appointment of the personal repr…

Sec. 4. (a) Unless prohibited by order of the court and except for estates being administered in supervised administration proceedings, a personal representative may close an estate by filing with the court no earlier than three (3) months after the date of the first published no…

Sec. 4.5. If, after three (3) months following the date that the closing statement required under section 4 of this chapter is filed, an objection to the closing statement has not been filed, the court does not have a duty to audit or make an inquiry. As added by P.L.130-1992, SE…

Sec. 5. After assets of an estate have been distributed, and subject to section 7 of this chapter, an undischarged claim not barred may be prosecuted in a proceeding against one (1) or more distributees. No distributee is liable to claimants for amounts in excess of the value of …

Sec. 6. Unless previously barred by adjudication and except as provided in the closing statement, all claims against the personal representative, including claims by a person under a disability, are barred unless a proceeding to assert the same is commenced within three (3) month…

Sec. 7. Unless otherwise barred, the claim of any claimant, including a claimant under a disability, to recover from a distributee who is liable to pay the claim, and the right of any heir or devisee, including an heir or devisee under a disability, or of a successor personal rep…

Sec. 8. If other property of the estate is discovered after the estate has been settled and the personal representative discharged or three (3) months after a closing statement has been filed, the court upon petition of any interested person and upon notice as it directs may appo…