Title LVI, Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates

The damages recoverable in such an action shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars except in cases where the plaintiff's decedent has left either a widow, widower, child, father, mother, or any relative dependent on the plaintiff's decedent in which event there shall be no limitat…

In such cases, the damages recovered, less the expenses of recovery, expenses of administration, taxes or other debts as approved by the probate court, shall become a part of the decedent's estate and be distributed in accordance with the applicable provisions of law.

All other actions and causes of action existing in favor of or against a deceased person, except those for the recovery of penalties and forfeitures of money under penal statutes, shall survive, and may be prosecuted or defended by his administrator.

The administrator, as such, may maintain any action necessary and proper to be brought in relation to real estate set off to him for debts due the estate, and to the real estate of the deceased in cases of insolvency, until the administration is closed.

The administrator, as such, may prosecute and defend all real actions pending at the decease of the testator or intestate.

Any appeal to which the deceased was entitled, or which might be prosecuted against him at the time of his decease, may be begun or prosecuted by or against his administrator.

Any person interested in the estate of a person deceased may begin an action as administrator, which shall not be abated nor the attachment lost because such person is not administrator, nor by his decease, if the administrator then or afterward appointed shall, at the first or s…

A notice sent to the administrator or his agent by registered mail, setting forth the nature and amount of the claim and a demand for payment, shall be deemed a sufficient exhibition and demand.

An action in which an administrator is party shall not be abated by reason of his death, or of the extinguishment or revocation of his trust, but may be prosecuted or defended by the administrator succeeding to the trust, who may be called into court by scire facias, in the same …

The estate of a person deceased and the administrator thereof shall be liable upon joint demands against the deceased and another person, as they would be if the demands were joint and several, unless it appears that it was the intention of the parties that the survivor only shou…

A joint administrator or guardian may have an action of account or assumpsit against the other administrator or guardian who shall refuse to apply the estate in his hands to the discharge of the just demands against it, or who shall refuse to account therefor, and he shall recove…

If an administrator, having been duly served with a scire facias, shall not become party to a suit, judgment may be rendered against the estate of the deceased in the same manner as if he had become a party.

In all cases where an administrator becomes a party to a pending suit he shall be entitled to one continuance as of course.

Writs of attachment and execution against administrators, where the cause of action existed against the deceased, shall run only against the goods or estate of the deceased, and the administrator shall not be arrested, or his estate be attached or levied upon, in such action.

Upon return of "no goods," or "waste," made by the sheriff on such execution, an execution may be awarded on scire facias against the goods, estate and person of the administrator, as for his own debt, to the amount of such waste, if it can be ascertained, otherwise to the amount…

The probate court may authorize administrators and guardians to adjust by compromise or arbitration any controversy between them and persons making claims against the estates in their hands. The attorney general or the director of the register of charitable trusts shall be a nece…

Whenever any person has a claim against the estate of a deceased person, which has not been prosecuted within the time limited by law, such person may apply to the court having subject matter jurisdiction over the nature of the claim, by petition setting forth all the facts; and …

If no administration shall have been granted upon the estate of a deceased person within two years from the date of death, no creditor of the deceased shall thereafter be entitled to maintain any action or proceeding in any court to appropriate the real estate or interests therei…

No such action shall be sustained unless the demand was exhibited to the administrator within six months after the original grant of administration, exclusive of the time such administration may have been suspended.

The provisions of RSA 556:29 shall not apply to the estate of a person deceased prior to five o'clock p.m., April 8, 1941, until two years from said date.

I. A communication between an attorney and a client acting as an administrator is privileged and protected from disclosure to the same extent as if the client was acting in his, her, or its individual capacity and was not acting as an administrator. II. The privilege under paragr…

If the estate has been represented insolvent within said six months no such exhibition shall be necessary to entitle the creditor to have the demand allowed by the commissioner.

No suit shall be maintained against an administrator for any cause of action against the deceased, unless it is begun within one year next after the original grant of administration, exclusive of the time such administration may have been suspended, except in cases where he has r…

Demands against an estate not due, and demands depending on a contingency, may be filed in the court of probate, and the judge, after due notice, may require the administrator to retain in his hands, on settlement of his account, such sum as may be necessary to pay them; unless t…

If a right of action existed in favor of or against the deceased at the time of his death, and survives, an action may be brought by or against the administrator at any time within one year after the original grant of administration.

Actions of tort for physical injuries to the person, although inflicted by a person while committing a felony, and the causes of such actions, shall survive to the extent, and subject to the limitations, set forth in RSA 556:10-14, and not otherwise.