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Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 28A-3-3

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Personal representative: includes both an executor and an administrator, but does not include a collector. See North Carolina General Statutes 28A-1-1

Where a person has been improperly appointed, and a different person in another county is determined under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-3-2(a) to be the properly appointed personal representative, such improperly appointed personal representative shall surrender to the properly appointed personal representative all assets of the estate under control of the improperly appointed personal representative. In addition such improperly appointed personal representative shall file an accounting with the clerk of superior court in the proper county according to the form prescribed for collectors by N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-11-4. (1973, c. 1329, s. 3; 2011-344, s. 4.)