Md. Code, Estates and Trusts § 5-204
Md. Code, Estates and Trusts § 5-204
in effectThe 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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