2020 Georgia Code
Title 53 - Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates
Chapter 6 - Administrators and Personal Representatives
Article 7 - Compensation
§ 53-6-64. Compensation to Temporary Administrator

A temporary administrator may apply to the court for reasonable compensation after notice to interested parties in compliance with Chapter 11 of this title. The court shall award reasonable compensation to a temporary administrator. For good cause, including but not limited to services performed and compensation awarded to a temporary administrator, the court may reduce the compensation due the personal representative under other provisions of this article.

(Code 1981, §53-6-64, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1352, § 19.)

- For article commenting on the enactment of this Code section, see 14 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 313 (1997).

• 53-7-1. (For effective date, see note.) General powers and duties of personal representative; additional powers.
• 53-7-2. Administration of entire estate; distribution of residuum.
• 53-7-3. Powers and immunities of administrator with will annexed.
• 53-7-4. Powers of temporary administrators pending appointment of personal representative and executors pending litigation of caveats to wills.
• 53-7-5. (For effective date, see note.) Powers, duties, and liabilities if more than one personal representative; safe deposit boxes or receptacles.
• 53-7-6. (For effective date, see note.) Power to borrow money, make and fulfill contracts, provide legal counsel, continue decedent's business, and perform other acts.
• 53-7-7. Disposition of income received during administration.
• 53-7-8. (For effective date, see note.) Support and education of minor heirs and beneficiaries without conservators.

• 53-7-10. Allowable defenses; generally.
• 53-7-11. (For effective date, see note.) Allowable defenses; action originating in lifetime of decedent.
• 53-7-12. Survival of action.
• 53-7-13. (For effective date, see note.) Service of notice, writ, or process.
• 53-7-14. Action against removed personal administrator.
• 53-7-15. (For effective date, see note.) Applicability of provisions relating to sureties on guardians' or conservators' bonds.
• 53-7-16. Joint and several liability of personal representative and sureties.
• 53-7-17. Liability on common bond of two or more personal representatives.
• 53-7-18. Liability of sureties on bond of removed personal representative.
• 53-7-19. Action on bond for failure to settle and account with heir or beneficiary.
• 53-7-20. Action on bond upon liability of decedent and return of execution marked nulla bona.
• 53-7-21. Against what property judgment levied.
• 53-7-22. Levy upon property; entering of judgment and issuance of execution.
• 53-7-23. Property upon which execution levied.

• 53-7-30. Filing and contents.
• 53-7-31. Making of inventory jointly by all personal representatives; proof of joint possession of assets.
• 53-7-32. Waiver of right to receive; relieving personal representative of duty to make.
• 53-7-33. Power of testator to dispense with making inventory.
• 53-7-34. Failure to return a correct inventory.

• 53-7-40. Liability of estate; priority of claims.
• 53-7-41. (For effective date, see note.) Notice for creditors to render accounts; notification of creditors' claims; requirement of reasonable additional proof or accounting; failure of creditors to give notice of claims.
• 53-7-42. Time for payment of debts; time for commencing action to recover debt.
• 53-7-43. Compelling heirs or beneficiaries to contribute to payment of debt.
• 53-7-44. Satisfaction of debts.
• 53-7-45. Compromise of claims.

• 53-7-50. (For effective date, see note.) Petition by personal representative for discharge; citation and publication; hearing; subsequently discovered estate.
• 53-7-51. Discharge when funds unclaimed.
• 53-7-52. Discharge of temporary administrator.
• 53-7-53. Discharge obtained by fraud.
• 53-7-54. (For effective date, see note.) Breach of fiduciary duty.
• 53-7-55. (For effective date, see note.) Revocation of letters of personal representative or other sanctions.
• 53-7-56. (For effective date, see note.) Resignation.

• 53-7-60. Jurisdiction.
• 53-7-61. Filing of petition upon termination of personal representative.
• 53-7-62. (For effective date, see note.) Appearance before court; failure of personal representative to appear; right to appeal.
• 53-7-63. (For effective date, see note.) Making and enforcing final settlement.
• 53-7-64. Accounting for income on property administered.
• 53-7-65. Recordation of final receipts; admission in evidence.
• 53-7-66. Refunding bonds.

• 53-7-67. Required annual filing; reporting period.
• 53-7-68. (For effective date, see note.) Mailing of return to heirs and beneficiaries; relieving personal representative of duty to file return.
• 53-7-69. Power of testator to dispense with necessity of return.
• 53-7-69.1. (Effective January 1, 2021) Annual statement of receipts and disbursements.
• 53-7-70. Examination and recordation of returns and vouchers; evidentiary effect.
• 53-7-71. (For effective date, see note.) Return of nonresident or deceased personal representative.
• 53-7-72. Docket of persons liable to make returns; failure to make returns.
• 53-7-73. Filing and contents of intermediate report; notice to heirs and beneficiaries.
• 53-7-74. (For effective date, see note.) Filing of objections to intermediate report; continuation of hearing; appeal.
• 53-7-75. (For effective date, see note.) Construction of will by superior court.
• 53-7-76. Judgment surcharging fiduciary.
• 53-7-77. Conclusiveness of order on intermediate report.
• 53-7-78. Taxing of costs.

- Jurisdiction of judge of probate court to grant administration on estates generally, § 15-9-31.

- This chapter was effective January 1, 1998, to the extent that no vested rights of title, year's support, succession, or inheritance are impaired, as provided by the version of Code Section 53-1-1 enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10, as amended by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1352, § 1.

Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10, effective January 1, 1998, repealed the Code sections formerly codified at this chapter, and enacted the current chapter. The former chapter consisted of §§ 53-7-1 through53-7-191, and was based on Laws 1764, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 301-303; Laws 1791, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 309; Laws 1792, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 287, 288, 307, 309; Laws 1799, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 288, 310, 312, 472; Laws 1804, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 291; Laws 1805, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 314; Laws 1810, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 316, 317; Laws 1812, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 318; Laws 1815, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 319; Laws 1820, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 484; Laws 1821, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 293, 321; Laws 1828, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 326, 327; Laws 1829, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 327; Laws 1840, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 332; Laws 1843, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 333, 474; Laws 1845, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 335; Laws 1847, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 336; Laws 1850, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 338, 339, 340; Ga. L. 1851-52, p. 91, §§ 16, 17; Ga. L. 1851-52, p. 235, §§ 1, 3-5; Ga. L. 1853-54, p. 36, § 1; Ga. L. 1853-54, p. 70, § 1; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 145, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 147, § 1; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 152, § 1; Ga. L. 1857, p. 60, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1857, p. 61, § 1; Ga. L. 1857, p. 102, § 1; Ga. L. 1858, p. 58, § 1; Ga. L. 1860, p. 33, § 1; Ga. L. 1861, p. 33, § 1; Ga. L. 1862-63, p. 138, § 1; Orig. Code 1863, §§ 2389, 2407, 2409, 2414, 2415, 2417, 2463, 2468-2486, 2490-2502, 2504, 2506-2512, 2556-2558, 2561-2570, 3295, 3296, 3298-3300, 3372, 3373, 3404, 3405, 3492; Ga. L. 1863-64, p. 47, § 1; Ga. L. 1863-64, p. 49, §§ 1-4; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 84, §§ 1-3; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 87, § 2; Ga. L. 1866, p. 23, § 1; Ga. L. 1866, p. 66, § 1; Ga. L. 1866, p. 67, §§ 1, 2; Code 1868, §§ 2385, 2403, 2405, 2410, 2411, 2413, 2460, 2466-2484, 2488-2502, 2504-2512, 2557-2559, 2561, 2563-2572, 3307, 3308, 3310-3312, 3391, 3392, 3423, 3424, 3515; Ga. L. 1868, p. 15, § 1; Ga. L. 1872, p. 31, § 1; Code 1873, §§ 2420, 2438, 2440, 2445, 2447, 2449, 2499, 2505-2523, 2527-2540, 2542, 2543, 2545-2553, 2598-2600, 2602, 2604-2613, 3383, 3384, 3386-3388, 3439, 3440, 3473, 3474, 3573; Ga. L. 1877, p. 19, § 1; Code 1882, §§ 2420, 2438, 2440, 2445, 2447, 2449, 2499, 2505-2523, 2527-2540, 2542, 2543, 2545-2553, 2598-2600, 2602, 2604-2613, 3383, 3384, 3386-3388, 3439, 3440, 3473, 3474, 3573; Ga. L. 1882-83, p. 75, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 140, §§ 1-3; Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 142, § 1; Civil Code 1895, §§ 3278, 3307, 3309, 3313, 3315, 3317, 3361, 3370, 3373-3375, 3396-3414, 3418-3431, 3433, 3434, 3436-3444, 3493-3497, 3499-3513, 3515-3520, 5036, 5037; Ga. L. 1899, p. 34, § 1; Ga. L. 1900, p. 51, § 1; Ga. L. 1901, p. 40, § 1; Civil Code 1910, §§ 3852, 3883, 3885, 3889, 3891, 3893, 3937, 3946, 3949-3951, 3972-3990, 3994-4007, 4009, 4010, 4012-4020, 4073-4075, 4077, 4079-4093, 4095-4100, 5619, 5618; Ga. L. 1920, p. 79, § 1; Code 1933, §§ 3-502, 3-503, 113-1216 through 113-1220, 113-1222 through 113-1226, 113-1229 through 113-1231, 113-1401 through 113-1408, 113-1411 through 113-1414, 113-1501 through 113-1516, 113-1521 through 113-1526, 113-1528, 113-1601 through 113-1605, 113-1901 through 113-1905, 113-2101 through 113-2105, 113-2107 through 113-2110, 113-2201 through 113-2209, 113-2301 through 113-2312; Ga. L. 1935, p. 326, § 1; Ga. L. 1943, p. 409, §§ 1-3, 5-11; Ga. L. 1947, p. 861, § 1; Ga. L. 1951, p. 823, § 1; Ga. L. 1953, p. 451, § 1; Ga. L. 1957, p. 502, § 1; Ga. L. 1958, p. 657, §§ 12, 15-18, 24; Ga. L. 1959, p. 99, § 1; Ga. L. 1959, p. 136, § 6; Ga. L. 1964, p. 211, § 1; Ga. L. 1964, p. 269, §§ 1-3; Ga. L. 1967, p. 438, § 1; Ga. L. 1968, p. 474, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 164, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1971, p. 430, § 1; Ga. L. 1971, p. 433, §§ 2, 3; Ga. L. 1971, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 447, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 455, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1972, p. 558, § 3; Ga. L. 1973, p. 826, § 1; Ga. L. 1973, p. 830, § 2; Ga. L. 1973, p. 1191, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 711, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 1325, §§ 3, 4; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 53; Ga. L. 1983, p. 884, § 4-1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 53; Ga. L. 1984, p. 937, § 5; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 53; Ga. L. 1986, p. 982, §§ 21, 22; Ga. L. 1988, p. 347, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 881, §§ 1-4; Ga. L. 1990, p. 294, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 350, § 4; Ga. L. 1994, p. 1173, § 4.

- For annual survey of law of wills, trusts, and administration of estates, see 40 Mercer L. Rev. 471 (1988). For annual survey of wills, trusts, and administration of estates, see 42 Mercer L. Rev. 491 (1990). For annual survey article on law of wills, trusts, and administration of estates, see 45 Mercer L. Rev. 475 (1993).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

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- Testamentary option to purchase estate property as surviving optionee's death, 18 A.L.R.4th 578.