The Personal Representative is responsible for distributing assets and carrying out the decedent’s intentions expressed in a Will. This is accomplished by recording deeds for real property and by distributing other property in kind or in cash once the property has been liquidated. There is a statutory preference that assets be distributed “in kind” if [...]

The Personal Representative must allow time to identify creditors and then pay those creditors using estate assets. The Personal Representative must publish notice to creditors of the decedent’s death in a newspaper of general circulation and then must wait 4 months before any unknown claims are barred. The Personal Representative must allow or disallow any [...]