2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution
3538 - Distributions involving persons born out of wedlock.

     § 3538.  Distributions involving persons born out of wedlock.
        A personal representative may administer an estate on the
     assumption that no person born out of wedlock is entitled to
     share as a distributee unless the personal representative has
     knowledge or has received notice that such a person with
     possible distributee's rights exists. If a personal
     representative has distributed an estate, or part thereof, in
     good faith without knowledge of a person born out of wedlock who
     has rights as a distributee, said distribution actually made
     shall not impose liability on the personal representative.
     Except as herein otherwise provided, a person born out of
     wedlock shall have the same rights in an estate and shall be
     subject to such time limitations and to such procedures as are
     applied to any other heir or claimant against an estate.
     (Nov. 26, 1978, P.L.1269, No.303, eff. imd.)

        1978 Amendment.  Act 303 added section 3538. Section 5 of Act
     303 provided that Act 303 shall not apply to wills or
     conveyances executed prior to the effective date of Act 303 or
     to rights from and through a child's father if the father had
     died prior to the effective date of Act 303.
        Cross References.  Section 3538 is referred to in section
     7799.2 of this title.