Kansas Statutes Chapter 59. Probate Code § 59-808. Estates of nonresident decedents; rights and duties of personal representative; payment of taxes

(1) Marshal all the decedent's personal property and shall take possession of it, to be held, administered and finally distributed as provided by law;

(2) pay the taxes and collect the rents and earnings on the property until the estate is settled or until delivered by order of the court to the heirs, devisees and legatees; and

(3) keep in tenantable repair the buildings and fixtures under the personal representative's control and may protect them by insurance. The personal representative, alone or with the heirs or devisees, may maintain an action for the possession of the real estate or to quiet title to it. The persons and corporations obligated under (including issuers of) stocks, securities or other instruments such as those described in K.S.A. 59-805 and amendments thereto, and their agents, are prohibited from obstructing in any way such possession or the exercise of such rights by such personal representative. No estate tax or inheritance tax waiver or any other authority or permission of any other state may be required by such persons, corporations or their agents as a condition to the payment or delivery of any money or property due under such instruments or to the transfer, reregistration or reissuance of stock certificates or other securities as ordered by the court.