O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 53-7-14 (2019)
Action against removed personal administrator
✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) When letters testamentary or letters of administration are revoked, no action by or against the removed personal representative shall abate. The newly appointed personal representative may be made a party plaintiff or defendant in place of the removed personal representative.
(b) The revocation of letters of administration shall not abate any action pending for or against the personal representative, but the newly appointed personal representative shall be made a party in proper cases as in the death of a party.
History
Code 1981, § 53-7-14, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.
Annotations
Cross references. - Substitution of parties by reason of death, § 9-11-25.
COMMENT This section carries forward former OCGA Sec. 53-7-44.