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title: Title 53, Chapter 7. Administration of Estates Generally
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date: 2025
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heading: ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES GENERALLY
title_heading: WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES
section_count: 60
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# Title 53, Chapter 7. Administration of Estates Generally

Title 53. Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates

60 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 53-7-1, General powers and duties of personal representative; additional powers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-1.md
- 53-7-2, Administration of entire estate; distribution of residuum, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-2.md
- 53-7-3, Powers and immunities of administrator with will annexed, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-3.md
- 53-7-4, Powers of temporary administrators pending appointment of personal representative and executors pending litigation of caveats to wills, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-4.md
- 53-7-5, Powers, duties, and liabilities if more than one personal representative; safe deposit boxes or receptacles, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-5.md
- 53-7-6, Power to borrow money, make and fulfill contracts, provide legal counsel, continue decedent’s business, and perform other acts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-6.md
- 53-7-7, Disposition of income received during administration, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-7.md
- 53-7-8, Support and education of minor heirs and beneficiaries without conservators, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-8.md
- 53-7-10, Allowable defenses; generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-10.md
- 53-7-11, Allowable defenses; action originating in lifetime of decedent, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-11.md
- 53-7-12, Survival of action, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-12.md
- 53-7-13, Service of notice, writ, or process, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-13.md
- 53-7-14, Action against removed personal administrator, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-14.md
- 53-7-15, Applicability of provisions relating to sureties on guardians’ or conservators’ bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-15.md
- 53-7-16, Joint and several liability of personal representative and sureties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-16.md
- 53-7-17, Liability on common bond of two or more personal representatives, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-17.md
- 53-7-18, Liability of sureties on bond of removed personal representative, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-18.md
- 53-7-19, Action on bond for failure to settle and account with heir or beneficiary, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-19.md
- 53-7-20, Action on bond upon liability of decedent and return of execution marked nulla bona, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-20.md
- 53-7-21, Against what property judgment levied, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-21.md
- 53-7-22, Levy upon property; entering of judgment and issuance of execution, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-22.md
- 53-7-23, Property upon which execution levied, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-23.md
- 53-7-30, Filing and contents, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-30.md
- 53-7-31, Making of inventory jointly by all personal representatives; proof of joint possession of assets, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-31.md
- 53-7-32, Waiver of right to receive; relieving personal representative of duty to make, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-32.md
- 53-7-33, Power of testator to dispense with making inventory, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-33.md
- 53-7-34, Failure to return a correct inventory, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-34.md
- 53-7-40, Liability of estate; priority of claims, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-40.md
- 53-7-41, Notice for creditors to render accounts; notification of creditors’ claims; requirement of reasonable additional proof or accounting; failure of creditors to give notice of claims, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-41.md
- 53-7-42, Time for payment of debts; time for commencing action to recover debt, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-42.md
- 53-7-43, Compelling heirs or beneficiaries to contribute to payment of debt, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-43.md
- 53-7-44, Satisfaction of debts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-44.md
- 53-7-45, Compromise of claims, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-45.md
- 53-7-50, Petition by personal representative for discharge; citation and publication; hearing; subsequently discovered estate, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-50.md
- 53-7-51, Discharge when funds unclaimed, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-51.md
- 53-7-52, Discharge of temporary administrator, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-52.md
- 53-7-53, Discharge obtained by fraud, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-53.md
- 53-7-54, Breach of fiduciary duty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-54.md
- 53-7-55, Revocation of letters of personal representative or other sanctions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-55.md
- 53-7-56, Resignation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-56.md
- 53-7-60, Jurisdiction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-60.md
- 53-7-61, Filing of petition upon termination of personal representative, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-61.md
- 53-7-62, Appearance before court; failure of personal representative to appear; right to appeal, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-62.md
- 53-7-63, Making and enforcing final settlement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-63.md
- 53-7-64, Accounting for income on property administered, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-64.md
- 53-7-65, Recordation of final receipts; admission in evidence, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-65.md
- 53-7-66, Refunding bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-66.md
- 53-7-67, Required annual filing; reporting period, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-67.md
- 53-7-68, Mailing of return to heirs and beneficiaries; relieving personal representative of duty to file return, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-68.md
- 53-7-69, Power of testator to dispense with necessity of return, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-69.md
- 53-7-69.1, Annual statement of receipts and disbursements, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-69.1.md
- 53-7-70, Examination and recordation of returns and vouchers; evidentiary effect, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-70.md
- 53-7-71, Return of nonresident or deceased personal representative, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-71.md
- 53-7-72, Docket of persons liable to make returns; failure to make returns, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-72.md
- 53-7-73, Filing and contents of intermediate report; notice to heirs and beneficiaries, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-73.md
- 53-7-74, Filing of objections to intermediate report; continuation of hearing; appeal, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-74.md
- 53-7-75, Construction of will by superior court, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-75.md
- 53-7-76, Judgment surcharging fiduciary, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-76.md
- 53-7-77, Conclusiveness of order on intermediate report, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-77.md
- 53-7-78, Taxing of costs, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-7-78.md