Personal representative · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 1-2.13 Personal representative
A personal representative is a person who has received letters to administer the estate of a decedent. The term does not include an assignee for the benefit of creditors, or a committee, conservator, curator, custodian, guardian, trustee or donee of a power during minority.
A personal representative is someone who has received letters to administer a decedent’s estate. The term does not include an assignee for creditors, committee, conservator, curator, custodian, guardian, trustee, or holder of a power during minority. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Surrogate's Court in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Surrogate's Court: Court Rules & the EPTL; Volume 5 — Your Career: Surrogate's Court in Plain English.