Pennsylvania Act 2018-114 — PROBATE, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES CODE (20 PA.C.S.) - PROVISIONS CONCERNING POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES

Act text

Session of 2018

No. 2018-114

HB 1886

AN ACT

Amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in incapacitated persons, further providing for provisions concerning powers, duties and liabilities.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 5521(c) of Title 20 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding paragraphs to read:

§ 5521. Provisions concerning powers, duties and liabilities.

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(c) Reports.--

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(3) No less than quarterly, the clerk of the orphans' court shall transmit to the court a list of guardians who are delinquent at least 30 days in filing the reports required under this section. The court shall take appropriate enforcement action against such guardians.

(4) The court shall develop a procedure for the examination of the annual reports to ensure that the guardians are acting in the best interests of the incapacitated persons.

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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

APPROVED--The 24th day of October, A.D. 2018.

TOM WOLF