2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution
3553 - Discharge of property from lien of charge.

     § 3553.  Discharge of property from lien of charge.
        (a)  Payment into court.--When real or personal property by
     will, inter vivos trust or decree is subject to a charge which
     has become payable, the court which has jurisdiction of the
     estate or trust, upon petition of a party in interest and after
     such notice as it shall direct, shall enter a decree fixing the
     amount of the charge then payable, and directing that it be paid
     into court and that upon such payment the property shall be
     discharged from so much of the charge as shall be paid into
     court. When the amount of the charge does not appear as a matter
     of record, the court, by appointment of a master or by
     investigation in open court, may ascertain and fix the amount. A
     certified copy of every decree relieving real property of the
     lien of a charge shall be recorded in the deed book in the
     office of the recorder of deeds of each county where the real
     estate shall lie, and shall be indexed by the recorder in the
     grantor's index under the name of the decedent or settlor, as
     the case may be, and in the grantee's index under the name of
     the owner of the land: Provided, That no conditional decree
     shall be recorded unless there is offered for recording,
     concurrently therewith, written evidence of compliance with the
     condition.
        (b)  Distribution of moneys paid into court.--Any money paid
     into court under the provisions of this section, subject to the
     laws of the Commonwealth relating to the payment of unclaimed
     funds into the State Treasury without escheat, shall remain
     there until the court, on petition of a party in interest and
     after such notice as it shall direct, aided by the report of a
     master if necessary, shall direct distribution to the persons
     entitled. The court may, in its discretion, appoint an auditor
     to make such distribution.