The filing that appoints someone with authority to act, and everything that follows it.
Nothing can be moved until the court appoints a personal representative. The petition asks for that appointment, and the letters the court issues are what a bank or a title company will actually accept.
From there the proceeding is a sequence: notice, inventory and appraisal, creditor period, and a final petition for distribution. Most of what goes wrong is a step taken in the wrong order.
What this involves
- Petition for probate and the hearing on it
- Letters testamentary or of administration
- Inventory and appraisal by a probate referee
- Petition for final distribution
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