TITLE 33

Probate practice and procedure

CHAPTER 33-19

Real Property of Decedents and Incompetents

SECTION 33-19-27



   § 33-19-27  Sale, lease, or mortgage by

foreign guardian of nonresident ward. –

If any person who resides out of the state, but within the United States, is

under guardianship in the state, territory, or district where he or she

resides, and has no guardian appointed in this state, the foreign guardian may

file a copy of his or her appointment, duly authenticated according to an act

of congress in those cases, in the probate court of any town or city in this

state in which there is real estate of the ward. After filing and upon petition

to the probate court, he or she may be authorized to sell, mortgage, or lease

the real estate of the ward in any town or city, for the purposes, in the

manner, after like notice, and upon the terms provided in this chapter in case

of sale, mortgage, or lease, by a guardian appointed in this state.



History of Section.

(C.P.A. 1905, § 763; G.L. 1909, ch. 308, § 30; G.L. 1923, ch. 359,

§ 30; G.L. 1938, ch. 570, § 30; G.L. 1956, § 33-19-27.)