NRS151.230. Order of discharge; court may excuse filing of receipt; order for distribution of estate from recovery of distributed property.

      1.  If an estate has been fully administered, and it is shown by the personal representative, by the production of satisfactory receipts, that all sums of money due and all the property of the estate has been distributed to the persons entitled to it and all acts lawfully required have been performed, the court shall enter an order discharging sureties from all liability thereafter to be incurred.

      2.  The court may excuse the filing of a receipt on a proper showing that the personal representative is unable, after reasonable effort, to obtain a receipt and that the property has been delivered to or is in the possession of the distributee or creditor.

      3.  The provisions of this section do not bar a successful appellant from an order for the distribution of an estate from the recovery of any property distributed to an heir or devisee pursuant to the order.

      [274:107:1941; 1931 NCL § 9882.274]—(NRS A 1981, 463; 1999, 2346)