O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 53-7-71 (2019)

Return of nonresident or deceased personal representative

✓ 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) The return of a nonresident personal representative may be admitted to record upon affidavit of the personal representative’s surety.

(b) If a personal representative is dead, the personal representative of the estate of the deceased personal representative or, if at any time there is no such personal representative of the estate of the deceased personal representative, any surety on the bond of the deceased personal representative may make returns of the accounts of such deceased personal representative in the same manner and with the same effect as if the deceased personal representative were living.

History

Code 1981, § 53-7-71, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10; Ga. L. 2020, p. 377, § 1-52/HB 865. The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, in subsection (b), inserted ‘‘personal’’ preceding the second instance

of ‘‘representative’’, inserted ‘‘personal representative of the estate of the deceased personal’’, substituted ‘‘surety’’ for ‘‘security’’, substituted ‘‘such’’ for ‘‘the’’ preceding ‘‘deceased’’, and inserted the last instance of ‘‘deceased’’.

Annotations

COMMENT This section carries forward former OCGA Sec. 53-7-182. RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 31 Am. Jur. 2d, Executors and Administrators, §§ 867, 875.

C.J.S. - 34 C.J.S., Executors and Administrators, §§ 979, 980, 1000.