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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="5-503" title_number="5" title_name="Opening the Estate" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Foreign Personal Representative">
  <level label="a">
    <text>As used in this subtitle, “leasehold property” refers only to a leasehold interest in real property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A foreign personal representative shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Publish once a week for 3 successive weeks a notice in a newspaper of general circulation in each county in which real or leasehold property of the decedent was located, containing:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The foreign personal representative’s appointment;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The foreign personal representative’s name and address;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The name and address of the foreign personal representative’s Maryland agent for service of process on file with the register in each county where real or leasehold property was located;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The name of the court that appointed the foreign personal representative;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>A brief description of all real and leasehold property owned by the decedent in the county;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>The date of the decedent’s death; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>The following statement: All persons having claims against the decedent must present their claims to the undersigned, or file them with the register of wills on or before the earlier of the following dates:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>6 months from the date of the decedent’s death; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>2 months after the foreign personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the creditor’s claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within 2 months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Record in each appropriate office of the register a certification that the foreign personal representative has published notice as required; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Promptly after a proceeding under this subtitle has been instituted, comply with the provisions of § 7–103.1 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within the time periods provided under subsection (b) of this section, a creditor may file with the register a written statement of the creditor’s claim, in the form set forth in § 8–104(c) of this article, and if a foreign personal representative has instituted a proceeding under this subtitle deliver or mail a copy of the statement to the personal representative.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The register shall maintain a book known as the “Claims Against Nonresident Decedents” book in which every claim and release shall be recorded.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Unless and until a release of a validly recorded claim has been recorded, or the claim has finally been determined in favor of the personal representative, the claim shall constitute a lien against the real and leasehold property owned by the decedent in the county at the time of death for a period of 12 years from date of death.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>If the personal representative is empowered by the will to sell the property the claim shall constitute a lien against the net proceeds from the sale.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
