TITLE 20
DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter
1. Short Title and Definitions
3. Ownership of Property; Legal Title and Equitable Estate
7. Orphans' Court Divisions
9. Register of Wills
21. Intestate Succession
22. Elective Share of Surviving Spouse
25. Wills
27. Contractual Arrangements Relating to Succession
28. Formula Clauses for Federal Tax Purposes
31. Dispositions Independent of Letters; Family Exemption; Probate of Wills and Grant
of Letters
33. Administration and Personal Representatives
35. Accounts and Distribution
37. Apportionment of Death Taxes
41. Foreign Fiduciaries
43. Temporary Fiduciaries
45. Sureties
51. Minors
53. Pennsylvania Uniform Transfers to Minors Act
54. Health Care
54A. Out-of-Hospital Nonresuscitation (Deleted by amendment)
55. Incapacitated Persons
56. Powers of Attorney
57. Absentees and Presumed Decedents
58. Mental Health Care
59. Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction
61. Estates
62. Disclaimers
63. Multiple-Party Accounts
64. Transfer on Death Security Registration
71. Trust Estates (Deleted by amendment)
72. Prudent Investor Rule
73. Municipalities Investments
75. Limitations on Exercise of Trustee Powers and Powers of Beneficiaries to Appoint Trustees
76. Powers of Appointment
77. Trusts
79. Charitable Instruments
81. Principal and Income
82. Revised Price Act (Repealed)
83. Inalienable Property
84. Military Service
85. Simultaneous Death
86. Anatomical Gifts
87. Employee Benefits
88. Slayers and Elder Abusers
Enactment. Unless otherwise noted, the provisions of Title 20 were added June 30, 1972, P.L.508,
No.164, effective July 1, 1972.
Special Provisions in Appendix. See section 4 of Act 164 of 1972 in the appendix to this title for special provisions
relating to effective date and savings provision of title and preservation of rights
and liabilities.
Title Heading. The heading of Title 20 was amended June 30, 1972, P.L.508, No.164; December 10, 1974,
P.L.816, No.271; and December 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293.
CHAPTER 1
SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS
Sec.
101. Short title.
102. Definitions.
Enactment. Chapter 1 was added June 30, 1972, P.L.508, No.164, effective July 1, 1972.
§ 101. Short title.
This title shall be known and may be cited as the "Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries
Code." Each chapter herein shall be known and may be cited by its chapter heading.
Notes of Decisions
Re: Trust Under Deed of D. Kulig Apl of Budke, C., 175 A.3d 222 (Pa. 2017).
· cites it 2× “164 (codified as amended 20 Pa.C.S. §§ 101, et seq.). 4 “A child or spouse who has been omitted from a will, as when a testator makes a will naming his or her two children and then, sometime later, has two more children who are not mentioned in the will.”
Est. of: I. Wilner Appeal of: Baker, L., 142 A.3d 796 (Pa. 2016).
“164 (as amended 20 Pa.C.S. §§101–8815). [J-18-2016] - 6 benefiting them and now conveniently missing (in its original form, at least), supersedes the existing will.”
Witco Corp. v. Herzog Bros. Trucking, Inc., 863 A.2d 443 (Pa. 2004).
· cites it 2× “2d 1023 (1998) (per curiam), where that court endeavored to define "debt" as it relates to the Probate Code, 20 Pa.C.S. § 101 et seq. Because "debt" is not defined in the definitional section of the Probate Code, the court looked to the default statutory definitions found in the…”
In re Est. of Easterday, 209 A.3d 331 (Pa. 2019).
“§§ 3301 - 3904, the Probate, Estates, and Fiduciaries Code, 20 Pa.C.S. § 101 - 8815 ("PEF Code"), and Rule of Civil Procedure 1920.”
In Re: Est. of Harold E. Rood, 121 A.3d 1104 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2015).
“20 Pa.C.S. §§ 101, etseq. 4 . The name is drawn from In re Totten, 17 Bedell 112 (N.”
Est. of Baehr, 596 A.2d 803 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1991).
· cites it 2× “On its face, the accounting required of Arentzen under the Pennsylvania Probate Estates and Fiduciary Code, 20 Pa.C.S. § 101, et seq. ("Probate Code") would appear to fall within the exception.”
In Re:Trust Under Agreement of William J. Cohen, 188 A.3d 1208 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2018).
“In support of its position, Bible Church relies on Pennsylvania's Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries ("DEF") Code, 20 Pa.C.S. §§ 101 - 8815, specifically, Section 2514(9), (10), and (11).”
Pastuszek v. Pastuszek, 499 A.2d 1069 (Pa. 1985).
“In Pennsylvania, the statute dealing with decedents’ estates is found in the Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries Code, 20 Pa.C.S. § 101 et seq. In this case the personal representatives were appointed by the Surrogate’s Court of Delaware and questions concerning assets in the…”
Nedd v. United Mine Workers of Am., 488 F. Supp. 1208 (M.D. Penn. 1980).
“4 While it is uncertain that the Pennsylvania Probate, Estate and Fiduciaries Code, 20 Pa.Cons. Stat.Ann. §§ 101 et seq., would cover a union pension trust fund, 5 I am satisfied that the codified rule of discretion that has been followed in a long, unbroken line of eases would…”
Williams v. Milliken, 506 A.2d 918 (Pa. 1986).
· cites it 2× “The Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries Code, 20 Pa.C.S. § 101 et seq. provides that for purposes of descent by, from, or through a child born out of wedlock, the child is considered the child of his father if paternity is established by clear and convincing evidence.”
In re Est. of Klink, 743 A.2d 482 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1999).
“¶ 5 There is also no dispute that Appellant and Appellee are equally qualified as “persons entitled” to letters of administration under the Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries Code, 20 Pa.C.S. §§ 101 et seq., as they are both members of the same classification, “other fit persons.”
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