2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution
3551 - Enforcement of payment.


                               SUBCHAPTER F
                  LEGACIES, ANNUITIES, AND OTHER CHARGES

     Sec.
     3551.  Enforcement of payment.
     3552.  Discharge of portion of property from charges payable
            in the future.
     3553.  Discharge of property from lien of charge.
     3554.  Presumption of payment, release or extinguishment.
     § 3551.  Enforcement of payment.
        When a sum of money is charged upon real or personal property
     by will, inter vivos trust or decree, and has become payable,
     the court having jurisdiction of the estate or trust, upon
     petition of a party in interest and after notice to all persons
     liable for its payment and to the owner of the property charged,
     may enter a decree directing payment by the person liable, and
     in default of payment, may direct the fiduciary or a trustee to
     be appointed to sell the property charged, or so much of it as
     shall be necessary, upon such terms and security as the court
     shall direct, in which event the proceeds of the sale shall be
     distributed under the direction of the court as in other cases
     of judicial sales, to the persons legally entitled to receive
     them.

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