Records and Certified Copies

Records and Certified Copies. The clerk of court of the Commonwealth Trial Court shall keep a record for each decedent involved in any document which may be filed with the court, including petitions and applications, demands for notices or bonds, and of any orders or responses relating thereto by the court, and establish and maintain a system for indexing, filing or recording which is sufficient to enable users of the records to obtain adequate information. Upon payment of the fees required by law, the clerk shall issue certified copies of any probated wills, letters issued to personal representatives, or any other record or paper filed or recorded. Certificates relating to probated wills shall indicate whether the decedent was domiciled in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Certificates relating to letters shall show the date of appointment. Source: PL 3-106, ch. 2, § 4. Commission Comment: Section 4 of PL 6-25, the “Commonwealth Judicial Reorganization Act of 1989,” provides that “[w]herever the term ‘Commonwealth Trial Court’ appears in the Commonwealth Code, it is henceforth to be interpreted and understood to refer to the Commonwealth Superior Court.”