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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="5-402" title_number="5" title_name="Opening the Estate" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Judicial Probate">
  <text>A proceeding for judicial probate shall be instituted at any time before administrative probate or within the period after administrative probate provided by § 5–304 of this title:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>At the request of an interested person;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>By a creditor in the event that there has been no administrative probate;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>If it appears to the court or the register that the petition for administrative probate is materially incomplete or incorrect in any respect;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>If the will has been torn, mutilated, burned in part, or marked in a way as to make a significant change in the meaning of the will; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>If it is alleged that a will is lost or destroyed.</text>
  </level>
</section>
