# Estates and Trusts (GET)

## Title 5. Opening the Estate

### Subtitle 2. Commencement of Proceeding

#### Section 5-204

The petition shall contain, as appropriate, a request for one or more of the following acts:

(1) The probate or recording of a will exhibited with the petition or deposited with the register pursuant to Title 4, Subtitle 2 of this article;

(2) An order directing witnesses to an alleged will to appear and give testimony regarding its execution;

(3) An order requiring a person alleged to have custody of a will to deliver it to the court;

(4) An order directing all interested persons to show cause why the provisions of a lost or destroyed will should not be admitted to probate as expressed in the petition;

(5) A finding that the decedent died intestate; and

(6) Other relief that the petitioner may consider appropriate.

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Md. Code Ann., Est. & Trusts (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)