Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 3-1006 – Limitations on actions and proceedings against distributees
Current as of: 2023 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 3-1006
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
Unless previously adjudicated in a formal testacy proceeding or in a proceeding settling the accounts of a personal representative or otherwise barred, the claim of any claimant to recover from a distributee who is liable to pay the claim, and the right of an heir or devisee, or of a successor personal representative acting in the heir’s or devisee’s behalf, to recover property improperly distributed or its value from any distributee is forever barred at the later of 3 years after the decedent‘s death or one year after the time of its distribution, but all claims of creditors of the decedent are barred 9 months after the decedent’s death. This section does not bar an action to recover property or value received as the result of fraud. [PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW). PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. F, §1 (AFF). PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).