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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="5-301" title_number="5" title_name="Opening the Estate" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Administrative Probate">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Administrative probate is a proceeding instituted by the filing of a petition for probate by an interested person before the register for the probate of a will or a determination of the intestacy of the decedent, and for the appointment of a personal representative.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Subject to the provisions of § 5–402 of this title, the proceeding may be conducted without prior notice, and is final, to the extent provided in § 5–304 of this subtitle, subject to the right of an interested person to require judicial probate as provided in Subtitle 4 of this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
