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Every source behind the Pennsylvania guide

3 primary records, quoted verbatim and checked against 10 named presence or absence conditions that must pass against the live government text. Open the record, read the words the publishing body actually used, and confirm the current rule for yourself.

Last full re-fetch October 3, 2026

What each source establishes

The Pennsylvania guide rests on the source-backed rules this site can verify for the state: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, how the person administering the estate may be paid, and the statutory creditor-deadline clocks the official text states.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.

Simplified-procedure rule

20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3102

Pennsylvania General Assembly · (Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293, eff. imd.; July 11, 1980, P.L.565, No.118, eff. 60 days; Dec. 1, 1994, P.L.655, No.102, eff. 60 days; July 2, 2013, P.L.199, No.35, eff. 60 days) · Verified August 9, 2026

owning property (exclusive of real estate and of property payable under section 3101 (relating to payments to family and funeral directors), but including personal property claimed as the family exemption) of a gross value not exceeding $50,000, the orphans' court division

What this means: palegis.us (the newer official domain) renders client-side and its HTML has no server-side statute text; this text comes from the General Assembly's legacy HTML server (legis.state.pa.us), which serves the consolidated statute over a plain GET. The $50,000 ceiling was set by Act 35 of 2013.

What was published from this source

  • PA 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3102

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • PA small-estate $50,000 personal property
  • PA small-estate excludes real estate
  • PA s3102 section identity
  • section identity

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Executor compensation rule

20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3537

Pennsylvania General Assembly · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026

The court shall allow such compensation to the personal representative as shall in the circumstances be reasonable and just, and may calculate such compensation on a graduated percentage.

What this means: Section 3537 as printed on the legacy PA server carries no per-section amendment-history parenthetical, so no publisher currentness signal is pinned for this source (disclose-limitation pattern). It states a reasonable-compensation standard with no statutory percentage schedule.

What was published from this source

  • PA 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3537

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • PA executor reasonable and just compensation
  • PA s3537 section identity
  • section identity

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Creditor deadline rule

20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3532

Pennsylvania General Assembly · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026

unless the claim of such claimant is known to the personal representative within one year after the first complete advertisement of the grant of letters

What this means: Substantiates the PA creditor-claim framework (one-year at-risk period from the first complete advertisement of the grant of letters). creditorClaims stays unknown because multiple provisions (advertisement, at-risk period, distributed-property claims) apply and the period is measured in years/months, not a fixed day count. Shares the chapter-35 harvest with pa-executor-fee.

What was published from this source

  • PA 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3532

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • PA creditor one-year from advertisement
  • PA s3532 section identity
  • section identity

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Statutes read in full for Pennsylvania

Read on the enacting state’s own site, with the date each was read.

CitationWhat reading it establishedRead on
20 Pa.C.S. § 3392When a Pennsylvania estate is short, the statute fixes who goes unpaid — court and filing cost note2026-09-17
20 Pa.C.S. § 3537Pennsylvania leaves the percentage to the court, and says so in one sentence — representative pay note2026-09-17

What Pennsylvania courts publish

Every link is probed before each release.

Limits on court material

  • Pennsylvania probate is opened at the county Register of Wills; contested matters go to the Orphans' Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas. Filing fees and many forms are county-specific and not published statewide.

Checking these Pennsylvania records against the publishers

Every citation above links to the body that publishes it, and every quoted sentence is reproduced exactly, so a text search on the publisher’s own page should land on it. Where the publisher’s current wording differs from what is recorded here, the publisher governs and this page is wrong; naming the citation and the language you see maps the difference onto a specific condition rather than a general complaint. The full procedure, including how a source qualifies in the first place and what disqualifies one, is set out once on the methodology page instead of being restated on each of the267 state records.

These records cover the cost and route questions this site answers for Pennsylvania. They do not cover intestate succession shares, spousal and family allowances, creditor priority, tax filing obligations, real-property transfer mechanics, or contested proceedings. Where an answer would require one of those, the site says so rather than estimating.

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