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2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 1 - Short Title and Definitions
Section 101 - Short title

 

 

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

77.  Trusts

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  Revised Price Act (Repealed)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

 

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 provision relating to effective date and savings provisions 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.

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