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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 20 Pa.C.S.A. Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries

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  • Chapter 1. Short Title and Definitions
  • Chapter 3. Ownership of Property; Legal Title and Equitable Estate
  • Chapter 7. Orphans' Court Divisions
  • Chapter 9. Register of Wills
  • Chapter 21. Intestate Succession
  • Chapter 22. Elective Share of Surviving Spouse
  • Chapter 25. Wills
  • Chapter 27. Contractual Arrangements Relating to Succession
  • Chapter 28. Formula Clauses for Federal Tax Purposes
  • Chapter 31. Dispositions Independent of Letters; Family Exemption; Probate of Wills and Grant of Letters
  • Chapter 33. Administration and Personal Representatives
  • Chapter 35. Accounts and Distribution
  • Chapter 37. Apportionment of Death Taxes
  • Chapter 39. Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets
  • Chapter 41. Foreign Fiduciaries
  • Chapter 43. Temporary Fiduciaries
  • Chapter 45. Sureties
  • Chapter 51. Minors
  • Chapter 53. Pennsylvania Uniform Transfers to Minors Act
  • Chapter 54. Health Care
  • Chapter 55. Incapacitated Persons
  • Chapter 56. Powers of Attorney
  • Chapter 57. Absentees and Presumed Decedents
  • Chapter 58. Mental Health Care
  • Chapter 59. Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction
  • Chapter 61. Estates
  • Chapter 62. Disclaimers
  • Chapter 63. Multiple-Party Accounts
  • Chapter 64. Transfer on Death Security Registration
  • Chapter 72. Prudent Investor Rule
  • Chapter 73. Municipalities Investments
  • Chapter 75. Limitations on Exercise of Trustee Powers and Powers of Beneficiaries to Appoint Trustees
  • Chapter 76. Powers of Appointment
  • Chapter 77. Trusts
  • Chapter 79. Charitable Instruments
  • Chapter 81. Principal and Income
  • Chapter 83. Inalienable Property
  • Chapter 84. Military Service
  • Chapter 85. Simultaneous Death
  • Chapter 86. Anatomical Gifts
  • Chapter 87. Employee Benefits
  • Chapter 88. Slayers

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