(3-912) Private agreements among successors to decedent binding on personal representative
N.D. Cent. Code § 30.1-20-12
in effect30.1-20-12. (3-912) Private agreements among successors to decedent binding on
personal representative.
Subject to the rights of creditors and taxing authorities, competent successors may agree
among themselves to alter the interests, shares, or amounts to which they are entitled under the
will of the decedent, or under the laws of intestacy, in any way that they provide in a written
contract executed by all who are affected by its provisions. The personal representative shall
abide by the terms of the agreement subject to the personal representative's obligation to
administer the estate for the benefit of creditors, to pay all taxes and costs of administration, and
to carry out the responsibilities of the personal representative's office for the benefit of any
successors of the decedent who are not parties. Personal representatives of decedents' estates
are not required to see to the performance of trusts if the trustee thereof is another person who
is willing to accept the trust. Accordingly, trustees of a testamentary trust are successors for the
purposes of this section. Nothing herein relieves trustees of any duties owed to beneficiaries of
trusts.
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