Michigan Laws 700.4303 – Service on foreign personal representative
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(1) Service of process may be made upon the foreign personal representative by registered or certified mail, addressed to the representative’s last reasonably ascertainable address, requesting a return receipt signed by addressee only. Notice by ordinary first-class mail is sufficient if registered or certified mail service to the addressee is unavailable. Service may be made upon a foreign personal representative in the manner in which service could have been made under other laws of this state on either the foreign personal representative or the representative’s decedent immediately before death.
(2) If service is made upon a foreign personal representative as provided in subsection (1), the representative is allowed not less than 28 days within which to appear or respond.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 700.4303
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Foreign personal representative: means a personal representative appointed by another jurisdiction. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
- Personal representative: includes , but is not limited to, an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, and special personal representative, and any other person, other than a trustee of a trust subject to article VII, who performs substantially the same function under the law governing that person's status. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 700.1107