§ 30.1-21-01 — (3-1001) Formal proceedings terminating administration - Testate or intestate - Order of general protection

North Dakota § 30.1-21-01

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 30.1: Uniform Probate Code
• Ch. 30.1-21: Closing Estates

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intestate - Order of general protection.
1. A personal representative or any interested person may petition for an order of
complete settlement of the estate. The personal representative may petition at any
time, and any other interested person may petition after one year from the
appointment of the original personal representative, except that no petition under this
section may be entertained until the time for presenting claims which arose prior to the
death of the decedent has expired. The petition may request the court to determine
testacy, if not previously determined, to consider the final account or compel or
approve an accounting and distribution, to construe any will or determine heirs and
adjudicate the final settlement and distribution of the estate. After notice to all
interested persons and hearing the court may enter an order or orders, on appropriate
conditions, determining the persons entitled to distribution of the estate, and, as
circumstances require, approving settlement and, after receiving satisfactory evidence
of payment of any estate tax due, directing or approving distribution of the estate and
discharging the personal representative from further claim or demand of any interested
person.
2. If one or more heirs or devisees were omitted as parties in, or were not given notice of,
a previous formal testacy proceeding, the court, on proper petition for an order of
complete settlement of the estate under this section, and after notice to the omitted or
unnotified persons and other interested parties determined to be interested on the
assumption that the previous order concerning testacy is conclusive as to those given
notice of the earlier proceeding, may determine testacy as it affects the omitted
persons and confirm or alter the previous order of testacy as it affects all interested
persons as appropriate in the light of the new proofs. In the absence of objection by an
omitted or unnotified person, evidence received in the original testacy proceeding shall
constitute prima facie proof of due execution of any will previously admitted to probate,
or of the fact that the decedent left no valid will if the prior proceedings determined this
fact.