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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="10-103" title_number="10" title_name="Closing Estates" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If no action or proceeding involving the personal representative is pending one year after the close of the estate pursuant to § 5-709 of this article or § 10-101 of this subtitle, the personal representative shall be discharged from any claim or demand of any interested person.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The rights so barred do not include rights to recover from a personal representative for fraud, material mistake, or substantial irregularity.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in § 10–102 of this subtitle and § 7–308 of the Tax – General Article, the right of a person seeking to recover property improperly distributed, or the value of it, from a person to whom property has been distributed is forever barred at the later of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Three years from the death of the decedent; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>One year from the time of distribution of the property.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection does not bar recovery of property or the value of it received as the result of the heir’s or legatee’s participation in a fraudulent distribution.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
