Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 53. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES · Chapter 7. ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES GENERALLY · Article 6. SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS · Part 2. ANNUAL RETURNS AND INTERMEDIATE REPORTS

53-7-71. Return of nonresident or deceased personal representative.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
The return of a nonresident personal representative may be admitted to record upon affidavit of the personal representative’s surety.#
(b)
If a personal representative is dead, the personal representative of the estate of the deceased personal representative or, if at any time there is no such personal representative of the estate of the deceased personal representative, any surety on the bond of the deceased personal representative may make returns of the accounts of such deceased personal representative in the same manner and with the same effect as if the deceased personal representative were living.#

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.

History

Code 1981, § 53-7-71, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10; Ga. L. 2020, p. 377, § 1-52/HB 865. The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, in subsection (b), inserted ‘‘personal’’ preceding the second instance of ‘‘representative’’, inserted ‘‘personal representative of the estate of the deceased personal’’, substituted ‘‘surety’’ for ‘‘security’’, substituted ‘‘such’’ for ‘‘the’’ preceding ‘‘deceased’’, and inserted the last instance of ‘‘deceased’’.

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