NRS-21657 | Probate packets - accounts

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Prior to 1890 the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over the property of deceased estates was known as "ecclesiastical.' The Probate Act, 1890, ended the old concept of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction and established the probate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

All persons sending Estates for Probate were required to file a set of accounts dealing with the estate. Since then there has evolved a system of exemption that requires executors and administrators to keep a record of how they administer the estate but these rarely required for submission to the court for approval.

Probate account packets contain documents such as: sworn statements by the executor that the accounts are in order; certification by the Registrar of Probate that the accounts are in order; affidavits of publication and search (to confirm that the filing of the accounts was advertised so that interested parties could come forward; a detailed lists of accounts since decease; correspondence objecting to the passing of accounts. Some earlier packets contain additional documents such as lists of assets.

The probate account packets provide supplementary information to the original will and accompanying documents held in Probate packets NRS 13660. Copies of wills are also held in the will books NRS 13661.

The probate account packets consist of brown or white envelopes with the name of the individual, series number and probate number on the outside. Some envelopes also include an account number.