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Statutes > Rhode-island > Title-8 > Chapter-8-9 > 8-9-9SECTION 8-9-9
§ 8-9-9 General probate jurisdiction.– Every probate court shall have jurisdiction in the town or city in which it isestablished of the probate of wills; the granting of administration, theappointment of custodians, of administrators, of guardians of persons andestates, or of persons only or of estates only, and of conservators; theaccepting and allowing of bonds, inventories, and accounts of executors,administrators, and guardians; the granting of leave to sell at public orprivate sale, or to mortgage property, as hereinafter provided; of the makingof partition of the real estate of deceased persons; of the adoption of personseighteen (18) years of age or older; of change of names of persons; of theremoval or filling of a vacancy of a trustee of any trust established under awill, or the termination of such trust; of setting off and allowing real estateand personal property to widows and surviving husbands; and of all othermatters now within the jurisdiction of probate courts. The court shall havepower to accept the resignation of, or to remove, any custodian, executor,administrator, or guardian, or any other person appointed by the court, andalso power to do and transact all matters and things incidental to thejurisdiction and powers vested in probate courts by law. Every probate courtshall have the power to follow the course of equity insofar as necessary tofulfill the mandates of title 33 of the General Laws, specifically: thereplacement, removal, or filling of any vacancy of any trustee under a trustestablished under a will; or tax minimization or estate planning under §33-15-37.1. The jurisdiction assumed in any case by the court, so far as itdepends on the place of residence of a person, shall not be contested in anysuit or proceedings except in the original case or on appeal therein or whenthe want of jurisdiction appears on the record.
