§560:3-1006  Limitations on actions
and proceedings against distributees.  Unless previously adjudicated in a
formal testacy proceeding or in a proceeding settling the accounts of a
personal representative or otherwise barred, the claim of a claimant to recover
from a distributee who is liable to pay the claim, and the right of an heir or
devisee, or of a successor personal representative acting in their behalf, to
recover property improperly distributed or its value from any distributee is
forever barred at the later of three years after the decedent's death or one
year after the time of its distribution thereof, but all claims of creditors of
the decedent, are barred as set forth in section 560:3-803.  This section does
not bar an action to recover property or value received as a result of fraud.
[L 1996, c 288, pt of §1; am L 1997, c 244, §12]