Title 20, DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES

(a) General rule.--If a Federal estate or gift tax marital deduction is allowed for all or part of a trust whose income is required to be paid to the settlor's or testator's spouse and whose assets consist substantially of property that does not provide the spouse with sufficient…

(a) Derivatives.--To the extent that a trustee does not account under section 8143 (relating to business and other activities conducted by trustee) for transactions in derivatives, the trustee shall allocate to principal receipts from and disbursements made in connection with tho…

(a) General rule.--If a trust receives a payment from interest or other current return and from other proceeds of the collateral financial assets: (1) The trustee shall allocate to income the portion of the payment which the payor identifies as being from interest or other curren…

A trustee shall make the following disbursements from income: (1) Interest, except interest on death taxes. (2) Ordinary repairs. (3) Real estate and other regularly recurring taxes assessed against principal. (4) Recurring premiums on fire or other insurance covering the loss of…

(a) Mandatory disbursements.--A trustee shall make the following disbursements from principal: (1) Extraordinary expenses incurred in connection with the administration, management or preservation of trust property and the distribution of income. (2) Extraordinary repairs. (3) Co…

Subject to sections 8161 (relating to mandatory disbursements from income) and 8162 (relating to mandatory disbursements from principal), a trustee may, in the trustee's discretion, allocate to income or principal or partly to each ordinary expenses incurred in connection with th…

(a) Transfers.--A trustee may transfer to principal a reasonable amount of the net cash receipts from a principal asset that is subject to depreciation. However, a trustee may not transfer any amount for depreciation: (1) of that portion of real property used or available for use…

(a) Permissible reimbursements.--A trustee may transfer an appropriate amount from income to principal in one or more accounting periods to reimburse principal or to provide a reserve for future disbursements if the trustee makes or expects to make a disbursement from principal w…

(a) Receipts allocated to income.--A tax required to be paid by a trustee based on receipts allocated to income shall be paid from income. (b) Receipts allocated to principal.--A tax required to be paid by a trustee based on receipts allocated to principal shall be paid from prin…

A trustee may make adjustments between principal and income to offset the shifting of economic interests or tax benefits between income beneficiaries and remainder beneficiaries which arise from any of the following: (1) An election or decision which the trustee makes regarding t…

In applying and construing this chapter, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states which enact it.

The court of common pleas, operating through its appropriate division, may authorize the sale, mortgage, lease or exchange of real property or grant declaratory relief with respect to real property: (1) Where the legal title is held: (i) by a person whose spouse is an incapacitat…

In all proceedings under the provisions of this chapter involving real property lying wholly within one county the petition shall be presented only in the court of that county.

In all proceedings under the provisions of this chapter involving real property through which the line dividing two or more counties runs, the court of the county in which the residence is situated; or, if there be no residence, the court of the county where the principal improve…

All jurisdiction conferred by this chapter shall be exercised on the petition of any party in interest, upon such terms and upon such security and after such notice as the court shall direct by general rule or special order.

Where real property is held by a person or persons subject to future interests in a person or persons unborn, unascertained or not sui juris and it shall appear to the court that it would be to the interests of such persons having future interests that the real property should be…

If such bond, if any, as has been required by the court, has been given, the title acquired through any sale, mortgage, lease or exchange made pursuant to a decree of the court shall be indefeasible by any person ascertained or unascertained, or any class of persons, referred to …

In any action brought under any law of this Commonwealth for the appointment of a committee or guardian for a veteran of any war, or a minor child, or incapacitated dependent of a veteran of any war, on whose account benefits of compensation or insurance or other gratuity is paya…

In any action or proceeding wherein the attorney of the bureau objects to the account of the committee or guardian, and such committee or guardian is removed for cause, costs shall not be allowed out of the ward's estate, but may be taxed against the defaulting committee or guard…

Where the title to property or the devolution thereof depends upon priority of death and there is no sufficient evidence that the persons have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property of each person shall be disposed of as if he had survived, except as provided otherwise …

Where two or more beneficiaries are designated to take successively by reason of survivorship under another person's disposition of property and there is no sufficient evidence that these beneficiaries have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property thus disposed of shall b…

Where there is no sufficient evidence that two joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property so held shall be distributed, one-half as if one had survived, and one-half as if the other had survived. If there are more than two joint…

Where the insured and the beneficiary in a policy of life or accident insurance have died and there is no sufficient evidence that they have died otherwise than simultaneously, the proceeds of the policy shall be distributed as if the insured had survived the beneficiary.

This chapter shall not apply in the case of wills, living trusts, deeds or contracts of insurance wherein provision has been made for distribution of property different from the provisions of this chapter.

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Acute care general hospital." Any hospital which has an emergency room facility. "Adult." An individual who is at least…

Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to authorize the donation of vascularized composite allografts, including hand, facial tissue and limb transplants, from an individual whose death is imminent or who has died at the hospital. Donation of vascularized composite allogra…

(a) General rule.--Any individual of sound mind and 18 years of age or more may give all or any part of his body for any purpose specified in section 8612 (relating to persons who may become donees; purposes for which anatomical gifts may be made), the gift to take effect upon de…

(a) Donees.--An anatomical gift may be made to any of the following persons named in the document of gift: (1) If for research or education, any of the following: (i) A hospital. (ii) An accredited medical school, dental school, college or university. (iii) The board. (iv) An org…

(a) Gifts by will.--A gift of all or part of the body under section 8611(a) (relating to persons who may execute anatomical gift) may be made by will. The gift becomes effective upon the death of the testator without waiting for probate. If the will is not probated or if it is de…

If the gift is made by the donor to a specified donee, the will, card or other document or an executed copy thereof may be delivered to the donee to expedite the appropriate procedures immediately after death. Delivery is not necessary to the validity of the gift. The will, card …

(a) Document delivered to donee.--If the will, card or other document or executed copy thereof has been delivered to a specified donee, the donor may amend or revoke the gift by any of the following: (1) The execution and delivery to the donee of a signed statement. (2) An oral s…

(a) Donees and relatives.--The donee may accept or reject the gift. If the donee accepts a gift of the entire body, he shall, subject to the terms of the gift, authorize embalming and the use of the body in funeral services if the surviving spouse or next of kin as determined in …

(a) Procedure.--A hospital located in this Commonwealth shall notify the applicable designated organ procurement organization or a third party designated by the organ procurement organization of an individual whose death is imminent or who has died in the hospital. Notification s…

1997 Repeal. Section 8618 was repealed May 7, 1997, P.L.85, No.7, effective immediately.

(a) General rule.--The Department of Transportation shall redesign the driver's license and identification card application system to process requests for information regarding consent of the individual to organ or tissue donation. The following question shall be asked on both th…

Police and emergency personnel responding to the scene of an accident or trauma shall take reasonable steps to insure that the driver's license or personal identification card, donor card or other document of gift and medical alert bracelet, if any, of the individual involved in …

(a) Driver's license.-- (1) Beginning as soon as practicable, but no later than 10 months after the effective date of this paragraph, the Department of Transportation shall provide an applicant for an original or renewal driver's license or identification card the opportunity to …

(a) Establishment.--All contributions received by the Department of Transportation under section 8621 (relating to The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund contributions) and the Department of Health under section 8617 (relating to requ…

(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no organ procurement organization, eye bank or tissue bank may divulge any individually identifiable information acquired in the course of performing the organization's or banks' responsibilities under this chapter except f…

(a) Affiliates.--(Deleted by amendment). (b) Unfair acts.--(Deleted by amendment). (c) Organ procurement organizations, eye banks and tissue banks.-- (1) An organ procurement organization, an eye bank or a tissue bank shall not do any of the following: (i) Disparage the services …

(a) Promotion.--The Department of Transportation shall ensure access by residents of this Commonwealth to an Internet-based interface which promotes anatomical donation and enables residents 18 years of age or older who hold a Pennsylvania driver's license or identification card …

(a) Applicability of section.--This section shall apply in all cases when the coroner or medical examiner must determine the cause of death and whether the death may have resulted from criminal acts or criminal neglect. (b) Full denial of recovery of organs.--If a coroner or medi…

(a) Applicability.--This section shall apply in all cases when the coroner or medical examiner: (1) must determine the cause of death and whether the death may have resulted from criminal acts or criminal neglect; and (2) is not the coroner or medical examiner of the county in wh…

(a) Notification.--Except as set forth in subsection (b), a coroner or medical examiner or designee may notify the applicable designated organ procurement organization of a person's death outside the hospital for the purpose of facilitating recovery of tissues for transplant. (b)…

(a) Mandatory.-- (1) For purposes of the ongoing development and implementation of the Donate Life PA Registry, the Department of Transportation shall collaborate with the designated organ procurement organizations in applying for Federal or private grants recommended by the orga…

(a) Model curriculum.--Within nine months of the effective date of this section, the Department of Education, in consultation with the designated organ procurement organizations, shall develop and post on the Department of Education's publicly accessible Internet website a model …