Md. Code, Estates and Trusts § 5-402
This is the official text of Md. Code, Estates and Trusts § 5-402, part of Maryland’s Code, Estates and Trusts — governs wills, trusts, and probate.
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§5–402.
Official statutory text
A proceeding for judicial probate shall be instituted at any time before administrative probate or within the period after administrative probate provided by § 5–304 of this title:
(1) At the request of an interested person;
(2) By a creditor in the event that there has been no administrative probate;
(3) If it appears to the court or the register that the petition for administrative probate is materially incomplete or incorrect in any respect;
(4) If the will has been torn, mutilated, burned in part, or marked in a way as to make a significant change in the meaning of the will; or
(5) If it is alleged that a will is lost or destroyed.
(1) At the request of an interested person;
(2) By a creditor in the event that there has been no administrative probate;
(3) If it appears to the court or the register that the petition for administrative probate is materially incomplete or incorrect in any respect;
(4) If the will has been torn, mutilated, burned in part, or marked in a way as to make a significant change in the meaning of the will; or
(5) If it is alleged that a will is lost or destroyed.
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