A person to whom letters are first issued has exclusive authority under the letters until the person’s appointment is terminated or modified. If, in the absence of termination or modification, letters are afterwards issued to another, the first appointed personal representative may recover any property of the estate in the hands of, and demand and secure an accounting from, the personal representative subsequently appointed, but the acts of the latter done in good faith before notice of the first letters, are not void for want of validity of appointment.

A successor personal representative has the same powers and duties to complete the administration and distribution of the estate as the original personal representative, including the powers granted in the will, but excluding any power expressly made personal to the executor named in the will.

When two or more persons are appointed copersonal representatives, the concurrence of all is required on all acts connected with the administration and distribution of the estate. The provisions of subsection (a) of this section do not apply if: The act involved is receiving or receipting for property due the estate; All personal representatives cannot readily be consulted in the time reasonably available for emergency action; A personal representative has validly delegated to a copersonal representative the personal representative’s power to act; or The will or a statute provides otherwise. Persons dealing with a copersonal representative without knowledge that the copersonal representative is not the sole personal representative are as fully protected as if the person with whom they dealt had been the sole personal representative.

Unless the will otherwise provides: Every power exercisable by copersonal representatives may be exercised by the survivors or survivor of them when the appointment of one is terminated; and Where one of two or more nominated as copersonal representatives is not appointed, those appointed may exercise all the powers incident to the office.