Failure to qualify The court must upon application of any person interested, a public administrator, the chief fiscal officer of the coun... · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 1006. Failure to qualify
The court must upon application of any person interested, a public administrator, the chief fiscal officer of the county, or creditor require an administrator designated by it to receive letters to qualify within a time specified and direct that in default thereof he be deemed to have renounced his appointment.
On application by an interested person, public administrator, county chief fiscal officer, or creditor, the court must set a deadline for its designated administrator to qualify and direct that missing it counts as renouncing the appointment. ★
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 2 — The Surrogate's Court Procedure Act; Volume 5 — Your Career: Surrogate's Court in Plain English.