2025 Session Last amended: 1986 session

§ 524.3-616 — Special Administrator; Appointed Informally; Powers and Duties

Plain-Language Summary

A special administrator appointed informally by the registrar must collect, manage, and preserve the estate's assets, keep an accounting of them, and hand them over to the general personal representative once that person is qualified. To carry out these duties the special administrator has the powers of a personal representative.

524.3-616 SPECIAL ADMINISTRATOR; APPOINTED INFORMALLY; POWERS AND DUTIES.

A special administrator appointed by the registrar in informal proceedings pursuant to section 524.3-614(1) has the duty to collect and manage the assets of the estate, to preserve them, to account therefor and to deliver them to the general personal representative upon qualification. The special administrator has the power of a personal representative under the chapter necessary to perform these duties.

History:

1974 c 442 art 3 s 524.3-616; 1986 c 444

History: History: 1974 c 442 art 3 s 524.3-616; 1986 c 444

Practical Notes

This type of special administrator is a temporary, caretaker role meant to safeguard estate property until the regular personal representative takes charge. Its job is limited to gathering and protecting assets and accounting for them, not to settling or distributing the estate, and it ends when the general personal representative qualifies and the assets are turned over.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes