4 Duty Of Personal Representative

• 4 If an order has been made declaring that a person is presumed to be dead for all purposes or for the purpose of distributing the person’s estate, and the personal representative of the person presumed to be dead subsequently believes or there are reasonable grounds for the personal representative to believe that the person is not in fact dead, the personal representative must not deal after that with the estate or the remaining estate unless the presumption of death is confirmed by a further order made under section 3.

1979-398-4; 2023-10-890.