1. A personal representative may sell the equity of the estate in any property which is subject to a mortgage or lien and sell the property subject to the mortgage or lien, upon such proceedings as are prescribed in this chapter for the sale of like property.
2. If a claim has been filed upon the debt secured by the mortgage or lien, no such sale may be confirmed unless the holder of the claim, by a signed and acknowledged instrument filed in the matter of the estate, releases the estate from all liability upon the claim.