Letters Of Administration Parties

Letters Of Administration Parties in United States

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Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982

Parties in Letters of Administration: The person who files an application for letters of administration is known as the petitioner. Letters of administration are granted to persons who are distributees of an estate and who qualify in the following order: (a) the surviving spouse, (b) the children, (c) the grandchildren, (d) the father or mother, (e) the brothers or sisters, and (f) other distributees. All other distributees are necessary parties to the proceeding and are made parties to it either by the service of notice of the application for letters of administration or by the service of a citation, unless they waive citation.

For example, a minor child of the deceased, or a minor child of his prior deceased child, are distributees of the estate and are interested parties. They are not served with citations because they cannot serve as administrators, but they are given notice of the application for letters of administration,

(Revised by Ann De Vries)

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