Statutes > Georgia Statutes > TITLE 53 - WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES > CHAPTER 6 - ADMINISTRATORS AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES > ARTICLE 2 - APPOINTMENT AND QUALIFICATION OF ADMINISTRATORS AND EXECUTORS > PART 2 - SUBSTITUTIONS FOR ADMINISTRATORS, EXECUTORS, AND GUARDIANS ENGAGED IN WAR SERVICE > § 53-6-51 - (Pre-1998 Probate Code) Appointment by probate court of new administrator, executor, or guardian to serve in place of one engaged in war service; petition and notice

§ 53-6-51 - (Pre-1998 Probate Code) Appointment by probate court of new administrator, executor, or guardian to serve in place of one engaged in war service; petition and notice

O.C.G.A. 53-6-51 (2010)
53-6-51. (Pre-1998 Probate Code) Appointment by probate court of new administrator, executor, or guardian to serve in place of one engaged in war service; petition and notice


Whenever any administrator, executor, or guardian is engaged in war service, the remaining administrator, executor, or guardian, if any, or any other person interested in the estate of a decedent or of an infant or of an incompetent person may petition the probate court which appointed the administrator, executor, or guardian for the appointment of a new administrator, executor, or guardian, as the case may be, to serve in place of the administrator, executor, or guardian engaged in war service; and, upon notice to such persons as the court shall direct, in a summary manner, the court shall have full power and authority to appoint a new fiduciary to serve in place of the administrator, executor, or guardian engaged in war service, with all the authority and subject to all the pains and penalties of the fiduciary engaged in war service.