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Code · Maryland · Estates and Trusts

§ 5-204

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§5–204.
The petition shall contain, as appropriate, a request for one or more of the following acts:
(1)The probate or recording of a will exhibited with the petition or deposited with the register pursuant to Title 4, Subtitle 2 of this article;
(2)An order directing witnesses to an alleged will to appear and give testimony regarding its execution;
(3)An order requiring a person alleged to have custody of a will to deliver it to the court;
(4)An order directing all interested persons to show cause why the provisions of a lost or destroyed will should not be admitted to probate as expressed in the petition;
(5)A finding that the decedent died intestate; and
(6)Other relief that the petitioner may consider appropriate.
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