Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 53. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES · Chapter 5. PROBATE · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

53-5-6. Admission of executor before qualification or of a beneficiary.

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On the investigation of an issue of devisavit vel non, the admission of an executor before qualification or of a beneficiary, other than a sole beneficiary, shall not be admissible in evidence to impeach the will except where the admission is in reference to the conduct or acts of the executor or beneficiary concerning some matter relevant to the issue.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 53-5-6, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

For annual survey of law of wills, trusts, guardianships, and fiduciary administration, see 56 Mercer L. Rev. 457 (2004).

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