Section 600.5852 - Death before period of limitations has run or within 30 days thereafter; commencement of action.
REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961
600.5852 Death before period of limitations has run or within 30 days thereafter; commencement of action.
Sec. 5852.
If a person dies before the period of limitations has run or within 30 days after the period of limitations has run, an action which survives by law may be commenced by the personal representative of the deceased person at any time within 2 years after letters of authority are issued although the period of limitations has run. But an action shall not be brought under this provision unless the personal representative commences it within 3 years after the period of limitations has run.
History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963 ;-- Am. 1988, Act 221, Eff. Jan. 1, 1989