2020 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 35 - Accounts and Distribution
Section 3536 - Recording and registering decrees awarding real estate
A certified copy of every adjudication or decree awarding real estate or an appropriate excerpt from either of them shall be recorded, at the expense of the estate, in the deed book in the office of the recorder of deeds of each county where the real estate so awarded lies, shall be indexed by the recorder in the grantor's index under the name of the decedent and in the grantee's index under the name of the distributee, and shall be registered in the survey bureau or with the proper authorities empowered to keep a register of real estate in the county: Provided, That no adjudication or decree awarding real estate subject to the payment of any sum by the distributee shall be recorded or registered unless there is offered for recording, concurrently therewith, written evidence of the payment of such sum.
Cross References. Section 3536 is referred to in sections 5163, 5533, 7799.2 of this title.
