(a) Before letters are issued, the personal representative (other than a trust company or a public administrator) shall file an acknowledgment of receipt of a statement of duties and liabilities of the office of personal representative. The statement shall be in the form prescribed by the Judicial Council.

(b) The court may by local rule require the acknowledgment of receipt to include the personal representative’s birth date and driver’s license number, if any, provided that the court ensures their confidentiality.

Terms Used In California Probate Code 8404

  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Personal representative: means executor, administrator, administrator with the will annexed, special administrator, successor personal representative, public administrator acting pursuant to Section 7660, or a person who performs substantially the same function under the law of another jurisdiction governing the person's status. See California Probate Code 58
  • Trust: includes the following:

    California Probate Code 82

(c) The statement of duties and liabilities prescribed by the Judicial Council does not supersede the law on which the statement is based.

(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 806, Sec. 26. Effective January 1, 1995.)

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