2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 33 - Probate practice and procedure
Chapter 33-9 - Collection and Management of Decedents' Estates
Chapter 33-9-29 - Descent or distribution of real estate to be recorded.
§ 33-9-29 Descent or distribution of real estate to be recorded. – When the real property of any deceased person, or any part thereof or interest therein, is devised or distributed or set out to the devisee or devisees, heir or heirs, or spouse of the decedent, or is legally divided by all the persons interested, or descends to the heir or heirs or spouse of the decedent, the executor or administrator of the decedent, shall cause a certificate of descent to be recorded in the land evidence records of every city or town in which real property of the decedent is situated, and it shall constitute prima facie evidence of the facts stated in it, so far as those facts affect real estate of the decedent.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2001, ch. 296, § 2; P.L. 2006, ch. 589, § 2.)
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