Bill Information

An Act amending the act of April 16, 1992 (P. L. , No. 24), entitled "An act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for definitions, for title to estates of incapacitated persons, for orphans' court jurisdiction, for venue of decedents', minors', and incapacitated persons' estates, for advertising accounts, for orphans' court division trials, for surviving spouses' election, for interpretation of wills, for family exemptions, for eligibility for letters of administration, for grounds for removing personal representatives, for death or incapacity of fiduciaries, for representation of parties in interest, for foreign personal representatives, for appointment of guardians in conveyances, and for guardians' powers and duties and liabilities; establishing a procedure whereby a person may execute in advance a written declaration indicating to a physician the person's desire for a physician to initiate, continue, withhold or withdraw certain life-sustaining medical treatment in the event the person is incompetent and is determined to be in a terminal condition or to be permanently unconscious; providing for pregnancy; providing penalties; further providing for incapacitated persons in terms of statutory scope, of procedure, of appointment of guardians, of guardians' powers, duties and liabilities, of accounting and distribution, and of guardianship support; further providing for implementation of powers of attorney, for durable powers of attorney, for disclaimers by fiduciaries, for trustees' powers, duties and liabilities, for court powers over disposition of real property and for notice in cases of appointment of personal representatives for veterans; adding conforming amendments to Titles 13, 18, 23, and 42; and making technical changes," changing the effective date of certain provisions of the act.