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PART II. REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS

TITLE II. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS

CHAPTER 198. INSOLVENT ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS

Chapter 198: Section 32. Commencement of action

[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 19. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

  Section 32. If it is not ascertained at the end of nine months after the granting of letters testamentary or of administration whether an estate represented as insolvent is or is not so in fact, any creditor whose claim has not been presented for proof may commence an action therefor against the executor or administrator, and such action may be continued without costs for the defendant until it appears whether the estate is insolvent; and if it is not insolvent, the plaintiff may prosecute the action as if no such representation had been made.