---
title: O.C.G.A. § 53-5-52. Time limitation; filing of petition constitutes claim against estate.
collection: code
id: 53-5-52
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 53-5-52 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-5-52
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-5-52.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-5-52/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t52-t53-(v40)-2021-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=d23ba203_0#page=532
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-5.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-5-51.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-5-53.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES / PROBATE / JURISDICTION
---

# O.C.G.A. § 53-5-52. Time limitation; filing of petition constitutes claim against estate.

(a) A petition based upon paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (b) of Code Section 53-5-50 shall be brought before:

(1) The probate of the previously probated will becomes conclusive upon the petitioner under Code Section 53-5-19 or 53-5-20; and

(2) The expiration of the time within which the newly propounded will must be offered for probate under Code Section 53-5-3.

(b) A petition based upon paragraph (3) of subsection (b) of Code Section 53-5-50 may be brought at any time.

(c) In all other instances, a petition made pursuant to this article shall be brought within three years from entry of the order admitting a will to probate.

(d) The filing of a petition made pursuant to this article shall constitute a claim against a decedent’s estate that arose before the death of the decedent for purposes of Code Section 9-3-36.

## History

Code 1981, § 53-5-52, enacted by Ga. L. 2020, p. 377, § 1-28/HB 865.

## Effective Date

This Code section became effective January 1, 2021.