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Ark. Code Ann. § 28-53-103

Order of final distribution — Notice and hearing

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Spurling v. Estate (2018)

Most recently applied in Spurling v. Estate (March 2018)

Acts 1949, No. 140, § 161; 1959, No. 190, § 1; 1971, No. 334, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 62-2902.

(1) Upon the filing of a final account of a personal representative praying for an order of final distribution or for approval of final distribution previously made, the court shall fix a date for hearing, not earlier than sixty (60) days after such a filing.

(2) In addition to the notice required by § 28-52-106, the clerk, by one (1) or more of the methods provided by § 28-1-112 as the court may by rule or specific order direct, shall notify all distributees of the estate, the surviving spouse, if any, of the decedent, all unpaid creditors, the surety of the personal representative, and such other persons, if any, as the court may direct, of the filing of the final account and the date set for hearing thereon.

(3) However, the court may order a final distribution or approve a final distribution previously made immediately upon the filing of the final account when it appears to the court that all parties in interest who are of full age and under no disability have waived the notice and hearing and that the guardians of all parties in interest who are minors or under disability of incompetency have waived the notice and hearing.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.