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PUBLIC LAW 89-183-SEPT. 14, 1965

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§20-702. Appraisers On the granting of letters testamentary or of administration or letters of collection, a warrant, except in the cases provided by sections 20-304 and 20-333, shall issue to two suitable persons not interested in the estate, to appraise the estate of the deceased, known to them or shown to them by the executor, administrator, or collector. They shall severally take and subscribe an oath well and truly, without partiality or prejudice, to value the personal estate and, if so directed, the real estate, of the deceased, as far as these items and properties come to their knowledge, to the best of their skill and judgment. § 20-703. Death of appraisers; failure to act If an appraiser dies, or refuses or neglects to act, another person may be appointed in his stead. § 20-704. Appraisement; notice; return The executor, administrator, collector or appraisers shall give notice to the persons immediately interested in the administration, or at least two of them, if they are numerous, of the time and place of making the appraisement. Thereupon, they shall proceed at that time and place to value the property and estate, setting down each article or item separately, with the value thereof, in dollars and cents. When the appraisement is completed, they shall certify it under their hands and seals, and return it with the inventory. § 20-705. Contents of inventory The inventory shall contain a particular statement of all other securities for the payment of moneys belonging to the deceased, and of all other debts and accounts due him, which are known to the executor, administrator, or collector, who shall designate those debts which he considers good, as distinguished from those which he considers desperate or doubtful, and also an account of all moneys belonging to the deceased which come to his hands. When, after an inventory is returned, assets not therein included come to the knowledge of the executor, administrator, or collector, an additional inventory and appraisement shall be promptly prepared and filed in the same manner. § 20-706. Exceptions to inventory There shall be excepted from the inventory the wearing apparel of the deceased, family pictures, the family Bible, and schoolbooks used in the family, and provisions for the support of the family, on hand at the time of the decedent's death. Where the decedent was the head of a family, or a householder, the property exempt under sections 15-501 to 15-503 shall so continue exempt from all claims against the decedent, and shall be distributed by the court to such members of the family or household as in the judgment of the court the exigencies of the particular case require. § 20-707. Collector's inventory If an inventory is returned by a collector the executor or administrator thereafter administering shall, within two months after his appointment, return either a new inventory in place of the collector's inventory or an acknowledginent in writing that he has received from the collector the articles contained in the first inventory, and consents to be answerable for it, as if the inventory had been made out by him as executor or administrator, unless it appears that he has been prevented from making the return by the improper detention of the personal estate of the deceased by the collector.

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