POST GRANT PRACTICE (DUTIES OF A PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE)

Duty to collect assets.

• ·      Section 25 AEA 1925 (as amended) states that the PRs of the deceased are under a duty to ' collect and get in the real and personal estate of the deceased and administer it according to law '.
• ·      Once the assets have been collected then case law has established that the PRs must administer the estate by paying debts and legacies and by disposing of…