§ 33-12-4 - Sale or mortgage of real estate when personalty insufficient.
SECTION 33-12-4
§ 33-12-4 Sale or mortgage of real estatewhen personalty insufficient. – If the personal property of a deceased person is insufficient to pay his or herdebts, funeral expenses, charges of administration, and the expense ofsupporting his or her family, as prescribed by law, and the legacies as areexpressly or impliedly charged upon the real estate, his or her executor oradministrator shall sell or mortgage for an amount decreed, in the mannerprovided in this chapter, so much of his or her real estate or of any interestin the real estate as may be subject to and required for the purpose ofpayments.