O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 53-9-16 (2019)

Final return; delivery of funds or property to personal representative

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If the missing individual is declared legally dead and the missing individual’s will is probated or administration is had upon the individual’s estate, the conservator shall, within 60 days after demand by the personal representative of the missing individual’s estate, make a final return to the probate court which has jurisdiction over the conservator and pay over and deliver all of the funds or property in the conservator’s hands to such personal representative.

History

Code 1981, § 53-9-16, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

Annotations

COMMENT This section replaces former OCGA Secs. 53-9-25 and 53-9-45. RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 31 Am. Jur. 2d, Executors and Administrators, § 1043.

C.J.S. - 1 C.J.S., Absentees, § 8 et seq.

ARTICLE 3 NONDOMICILIARIES