Sec. 14. (a) In all cases when a claim is filed against the estate, and before it is paid, any person interested in the estate, upon written petition to the court, shall be allowed, at his expense, to defend such claim, and until such claim is adjudicated the personal representative shall not pay the same.

     (b) In all cases when a claim against the estate is paid by the personal representative, without payment thereof having been ordered by the court, whether or not such claim has been filed, any person interested in the estate may raise whatever objections he may have to the payment of such claim by filing his objections to the next account of the personal representative, as provided in IC 29-1-16-7.

Formerly: Acts 1953, c.112, s.1414. As amended by Acts 1982, P.L.171, SEC.40.