Title 20, DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES

No will or codicil in writing, or any part thereof, can be revoked or altered otherwise than: (1) Will or codicil.--By some other will or codicil in writing; (2) Other writing.--By some other writing declaring the same, executed and proved in the manner required of wills; or (3) …

If, after the making of any will, the testator shall execute a later will which expressly or by necessary implication revokes the earlier will, the revocation of the later will shall not revive the earlier will, unless the revocation is in writing and declares the intention of th…

Wills shall be modified upon the occurrence of any of the following circumstances, among others: (1) Death within 30 days; religious and charitable gifts.--(Repealed). (2) Divorce or pending divorce.--Any provision in a testator's will in favor of or relating to the testator's sp…

1978 Repeal. Section 2508 was repealed April 18, 1978, P.L.42, No.23, effective in 60 days.

1978 Repeal. Section 2509 was repealed April 18, 1978, P.L.42, No.23, effective in 60 days.

1978 Repeal. Section 2510 was repealed April 18, 1978, P.L.42, No.23, effective in 60 days.

1978 Repeal. Section 2511 was repealed April 18, 1978, P.L.42, No.23, effective in 60 days.

1978 Repeal. Section 2512 was repealed April 18, 1978, P.L.42, No.23, effective in 60 days.

1978 Repeal. Section 2513 was repealed April 18, 1978, P.L.42, No.23, effective in 60 days.

In the absence of a contrary intent appearing therein, wills shall be construed as to real and personal estate in accordance with the following rules: (1) Wills construed as if executed immediately before death.--(Repealed). (1.1) Construction that will passes all property.--A wi…

A devise or bequest in a will may be made to the trustee of a trust, including any unfunded trust, established in writing by the testator or any other person before, concurrently with or after the execution of the will. Such devise or bequest shall not be invalid because the trus…

Whenever by any devise an estate in fee tail would be created according to the common law of the Commonwealth, it shall pass an estate in fee simple, and as such shall be inheritable and freely alienable.

(a) Rule in Shelley's case.--The rule in Shelley's case and its corollaries shall not be applied, and a devise or bequest directly or in trust which shall express an intent to create an estate for life with remainder to the life tenant's heirs or the heirs of his body or his issu…

Real and personal estate shall pass without regard to whether the testator or any devisee or legatee is or has been an alien.

(a) Guardian of the person.--A person competent to make a will, being the sole surviving parent or adopting parent of any unmarried minor child, may appoint a testamentary guardian of the person of such child during his minority, or for any shorter period except that no parent wh…

1976 Repeal. Section 2520 was repealed July 9, 1976, P.L.551, No.135, effective immediately.

A provision in a will or trust purporting to penalize an interested person for contesting the will or trust or instituting other proceedings relating to the estate or trust is unenforceable if probable cause exists for instituting proceedings. (Dec. 1, 1994, P.L.655, No.102, eff.…