Chapter 143 - Powers and Duties of Personal Representatives
- 143.010 - Multiple personal representatives: Effect of absence or disability; sufficiency of acts of majority.
- 143.020 - Right to possession of decedent’s property.
- 143.030 - Duty to take possession of estate and collect debts; exception for certain assets held by guardian.
- 143.035 - Duty to use reasonable diligence; report required if estate not closed within certain times; hearing and determinations by court.
- 143.037 - Duty to close estate within 18 months after appointment; exceptions.
- 143.040 - Rights of surviving partner.
- 143.050 - Continuing business of decedent.
- 143.060 - Extent of power to sue and be sued.
- 143.065 - Statute of limitations for cause of action of decedent.
- 143.070 - Actions by personal representative for conversion or trespass.
- 143.080 - Actions against personal representative for conversion or trespass.
- 143.090 - Action on bond of former personal representative.
- 143.100 - Action for conversion before letters granted.
- 143.110 - Procedure when conversion alleged: Citation; examination; allowance of necessary expenses.
- 143.120 - Procedure when conversion alleged: Commitment for refusal to appear for examination; order requiring delivery of property to personal representative.
- 143.130 - Accounting by person holding assets of estate for personal representative; penalty for failure or refusal to comply with order.
- 143.140 - Discharging debtor of estate, compromising claims and renewing obligations: Procedure.
- 143.150 - Action to recover fraudulently conveyed property for benefit of creditors.
- 143.160 - Costs; disposal of property recovered; proceeds.
- 143.165 - Temporary order to restrain personal representative from performing administration, disbursement or distribution of estate: Issuance; hearing.
- 143.170 - Purchase of property of estate by personal representative.
- 143.180 - Power to make loans, advances of credit and other investments insured by Federal Housing Administrator; validation of loans, advances of credit and purchases of obligations made before Octob
- 143.185 - Power to invest in farm loan bonds and other obligations issued by federal land banks and banks for cooperatives.
- 143.187 - Power to hold stock in name of nominee; personal liability of personal representative.
- 143.190 - Cumulative method of service of process on personal representative; written statement containing permanent address of personal representative to be filed with clerk.
- 143.200 - Actions not to abate on death, disqualification, resignation or removal of personal representative; substitution of successor.