Bill Information

An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, making certain editorial corrections; expanding nonmandatory jurisdiction of the orphans' court division; reducing the period for making appeals from a decree of the register; making a bond discretionary with the court; providing for the effect of heir's surviving decedent for five days; adding certain adoption provisions; redefining advancements; changing certain time limitations; adding and redefining rules of interpretation; changing the bond requirement for a personal representative; extending the statute of limitation for certain debts due the estate; providing for the filing of a record of risk distributions; relieving a guardian of liability for certain distributions to a personal representative; authorizing a court having jurisdiction of an estate or trust to make a decree of death; raising the monetary limitation for termination of trusts; providing for annexation of distributed estate or trusts; and making repeals.