Oklahoma Executor Duties

Oklahoma executor duties begin at appointment and run on court deadlines. You qualify by oath and any bond the judge orders, take possession of the estate, return an inventory to the district court within two months, file the notice to creditors within two months of letters, pay allowed debts in the order 58 O.S. § 591 sets, then account and ask for a discharge.

Oklahoma law calls the office personal representative. 58 O.S. § 11 defines that term to include an executor, an administrator, an administrator with will annexed, a conservator, a guardian, and a successor appointed to follow an earlier one. Executor is the everyday word when a will named you, administrator is the word when no will did, and Title 58 uses all three. Every duty below reaches each of them.

Every rule on this page was read on September 2, 2026 in the Oklahoma Legislature's compilation of Title 58, which carries the statutes through the 2025 session. Probate sits in the district court of one of Oklahoma's 77 counties under 58 O.S. § 1, and there is no separate probate court, so the filings named here land with one county court clerk. Read this beside the Oklahoma probate timeline for the dates gathered on one page, and the Oklahoma district courts by county directory for the clerk who takes them.

Two 30-Day Clocks Run Before Anyone Appoints You

Most executor checklists open at the courthouse. Oklahoma puts two duties in front of that, and both belong to a person who holds no letters yet.

The first falls on whoever holds the will. Under 58 O.S. § 21, every custodian of a will must deliver it to the district court that has jurisdiction of the estate, or to the executor named in it, within 30 days after receiving information that the maker has died. A custodian who fails is responsible for all damages sustained by anyone injured by the failure.

The second falls on the person the will names. Under 58 O.S. § 108, an executor who knows of the death and knows he is named, and who then lets 30 days pass without petitioning for probate of the will and for letters, may be held to have renounced the right to letters. The court may appoint another competent person as administrator instead, unless good cause for the delay is shown. Nothing revokes your nomination automatically, and nothing sends you a warning. The section simply hands the judge a reason to move on.

Start any Oklahoma estate by answering two questions about those clocks. Has the will reached the courthouse or the named executor, and has the named executor filed a petition.

Who Gets Appointed, and Who Cannot Serve

Being named in a will puts you at the front of the line and does nothing else. Authority arrives with letters.

When the court admits a will to probate, 58 O.S. § 101 directs it to issue letters to the persons named in the will as executors who are competent to discharge the trust, and who appear and qualify, unless someone objects under § 104. Any person interested in a will may file written objections to letters going to a named executor, and the court hears and decides them. If the sole executor or all of them are incompetent, renounce, fail to apply, or fail to appear and qualify, § 103 sends the estate to an administrator with the will annexed, who under § 109 holds the same authority the named executor would have had.

Competency is a short list, and Oklahoma rewrote it recently. 58 O.S. § 102, amended by Laws 2024, chapter 231 and effective November 1, 2024, disqualifies a person who at the time the will is admitted to probate is under the age of majority, is convicted of a crime that causes the court to determine that the person should not be entrusted with the fiduciary duties of an executor, or is adjudged by the court incompetent by reason of drunkenness, improvidence, or want of understanding and integrity. 58 O.S. § 126 carries the same three grounds for administrators, amended the same day. Read the conviction ground closely. It asks the judge to make a determination about this person and these duties rather than barring every past conviction outright.

With no will, 58 O.S. § 122 ranks who may administer:

1. The surviving husband or wife, or a competent person he or she requests to have appointed
2. The children
3. The father or mother
4. The brothers or sisters
5. The grandchildren
6. The next of kin entitled to share in the distribution of the estate
7. The creditors
8. Any person legally competent

Three rules sit around that ladder. Relatives of the whole blood are preferred to those of the half blood among people equally entitled, under § 123. Where several are equally entitled, § 124 lets the court grant letters to one or more of them, and lets the court hand letters to another competent person at a second creditor's request when a creditor is the one asking. A surviving partner of the decedent may never be appointed administrator of the estate, a limit § 122 states in its closing line.

Priority also moves. Under § 134 the person entitled may file a written request that letters go to another competent person instead. Under 58 O.S. § 135, when letters have gone to anyone other than the surviving husband or wife, child, father, mother, brother or sister of the intestate, any one of those relatives may petition to revoke them and take the administration. 58 O.S. § 138 extends the same move to a surviving spouse whose letters went to one of those relatives, and to any of those relatives when letters went to another of them. If the person entitled is a minor, § 125 sends the letters to the minor's guardian or another person entitled, at the court's discretion.

Where two or more people serve together, 58 O.S. § 107 keeps the estate moving. With two personal representatives, the act of one is effective if the other is under a legal disability from serving, or has given written authority to act for both. With more than two, the act of a majority is valid.

Qualifying: The Oath, the Bond, and the Nonresident Agent

Three filings stand between the appointment order and a usable set of letters.

The oath. Under 58 O.S. § 161, an executor or administrator must take and subscribe an oath before an officer authorized to administer oaths, swearing to perform the duties of the office according to law, before letters issue. The oath is attached to the letters themselves, and the judge records the letters, the bonds, and the certificates on them.

The bond. 58 O.S. § 171 makes the bond the statutory starting point and the waiver the exception, which is the reverse of how uniform-code content describes the question. Every person to whom letters are directed to issue must, before receiving them, execute a bond to the State of Oklahoma with two or more sufficient sureties, approved by the judge. The judge sets the penalty after examining the applicant on oath, and any other person, about the probable value of the personal property, the probable value of the annual rents from the real property, and other circumstances. The section then adds the provision that resolves the question in a routine estate: the court may order that no bond is required if the circumstances indicate none is necessary. Under 58 O.S. § 178, a will that expressly provides that no bond shall be required of the executor lets letters issue and real estate sales be confirmed without one, though the court may require a bond for good cause at the start or at any later point. Work out whether you must post a bond before the appointment hearing, because the penalty amount and the surety are settled there.

The agent. An executor, administrator or guardian appointed in Oklahoma but living outside it must, before entering on the duties, appoint an agent in writing who resides in the county of appointment, and must agree in that writing that service of legal process on the agent has the same effect as personal service. The writing states the agent's address and is filed with the judge of the district court. That is 58 O.S. § 162, and an out of state family member usually meets it first.

What the Job Actually Is

58 O.S. § 251 states the assignment in one sentence. The executor or administrator must take into his possession all the estate of the decedent, real and personal, except the homestead and personal property not ranked as assets, and collect all debts due to the decedent or to the estate.

58 O.S. § 290 fills in what possession means. You hold the real and personal estate and receive the rents and profits of the real estate, again excepting the realty and improvements properly belonging to the homestead and the personal property the law reserves to the widow and children of the decedent, until the estate is settled or the court orders it delivered to the heirs or devisees. The same section adds a maintenance duty in plain words: keep in good tenantable repair all houses, buildings and fixtures under your control. Heirs or devisees may sue for possession or to quiet title against anyone except you.

Cash has its own rule. Under 58 O.S. § 581(B), a personal representative may invest estate funds in United States government obligations and in accounts fully insured by the United States government without any court order, unless the will says otherwise. Anything beyond that needs the petition and notice described in subsection A.

One protection reaches backward past your appointment. Under 58 O.S. § 292, a person who embezzles or alienates the money, goods, chattels or effects of a decedent before letters issue is chargeable for double the value, recoverable by the personal representative for the benefit of the estate. That is the section behind the emptied account in the week after a funeral.

The Inventory: Two Months, Filed With the Court, and You May Value It Yourself

58 O.S. § 281 is the first hard deadline you own, and it differs from the uniform-code version many national pages describe.

You must make and return to the court an inventory, an appraisement, or both, covering the estate that has come into your possession or knowledge, designating the homestead and the exempt personal property, within two months from the date of the order of your appointment. The inventory goes back to the court. Oklahoma does not treat filing as optional. The court may extend the time for good cause shown, and asking before the two months run is a different conversation from explaining afterward.

Subsection B is the part that saves most self-filed estates money. The personal representative may fulfill the appraisement requirement by stating his own opinion of the value of the estate described in the inventory. A formal appraisement becomes mandatory only under subsection C, when an heir, devisee, legatee, a creditor who has filed a claim, a guardian, a conservator, a guardian ad litem, or another person interested in the estate presents a written demand. The court must then order it, and appraisers appointed under § 282 do the work. Those appraisers are three disinterested persons, any two of whom may act, paid reasonable compensation not exceeding 75 dollars per day except on court order, and they file a verified account of services and disbursements with the inventory.

Four companion sections finish the record:

• 58 O.S. § 283. Appraisers swear an oath attached to the inventory, then set down each article separately with its value in dollars and cents, covering the whole estate plus debts, partnership and other interests, bonds, mortgages, notes and securities, naming the debtor on each and the sum the appraisers judge collectible.
• 58 O.S. § 284. The inventory must account for all money of the decedent that has come into your hands, and must say so when there is none. Where the whole estate is money, no appraisement is needed and the inventory still is.
• 58 O.S. § 285. Being named executor does not cancel a debt you owed the testator. The claim goes on the inventory and you are liable for it as money in your hands when it comes due.
• 58 O.S. § 289. Property that surfaces later gets appraised the same way, with a supplementary inventory returned within two months after the discovery.

The return itself is sworn. Under 58 O.S. § 287 you subscribe an oath before an authorized officer that the inventory truly states all the estate that has come to your knowledge and possession, particularly all money of the decedent and all just claims the decedent held against you, and that oath is endorsed on or annexed to the inventory.

Missing this one is expensive. 58 O.S. § 288 lets the judge allow up to two further months for reasonable cause, and then, on notice, revoke the letters. It also makes you liable on your bond for any injury to the estate or to any interested person arising from the failure.

The Notice to Creditors Is Mandatory in Oklahoma

Some states leave publication to the representative's judgment. Oklahoma does not.

Under 58 O.S. § 331, every personal representative must file a notice to creditors within two months after the issuance of letters, unless a special administrator already gave it under § 215. The presentment date printed in the notice must be a date certain at least two months after the notice is filed, and the first publication must appear on or before the tenth day after the filing. Publication runs once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper in the county where the probate is filed, and the notice also goes by mail to all known creditors at their last known available addresses. A presentment date landing on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday moves to the next day that is none of those.

Two penalties enforce it. Under 58 O.S. § 352, a representative who neglects for two months after appointment to give the notice loses the office: the court must revoke the letters and appoint the person next entitled, unless good cause to the contrary is shown. Under 58 O.S. § 598, once the accounts are settled and a payment order is made, a creditor left out of that order normally cannot chase the paid creditors or the heirs, but a representative who failed to give the § 331 notice hands that creditor a claim on the bond for the amount that would have been allowed.

The presentment date, the mailed notice, the allowance and rejection mechanics, and the 45 day suit clock all live in the Oklahoma creditor claims guide.

Paying Debts, and Where Personal Liability Starts

58 O.S. § 591 fixes the order of payment, and its first entry inverts what most national templates assume. Funeral expenses come first, then the expenses of the last sickness, then the funds the court allows for support of the family, then taxes to the United States or the state, county or city, then debts having preference under federal and Oklahoma law, then judgments that were liens on the decedent's property in his lifetime and mortgages in the order of their date, then claims presented or proved within two months after the first publication of notice, then all other demands, and last the interest arising from an extension of time to pay federal estate or transfer taxes.

That ladder decides where every allowed claim lands, and it matters most when the money runs short. Which debts get paid first walks each of the nine classes with the sections behind them.

Payment follows a court decree, not your own judgment about who deserves it. Under 58 O.S. § 595 the court makes an order for the payment of debts on settlement of your accounts, specifying the sum for each creditor when the funds do not cover the allowed debts in full. 58 O.S. § 596 handles a claim not yet due, contingent or disputed, and 58 O.S. § 597 states the consequence of that decree in blunt terms: once the court orders payment, the personal representative is personally liable to each creditor for the allowed claim or its dividend, execution may issue on the decree as on a civil judgment, and the representative is liable on the bond to each creditor.

Self-Dealing: Oklahoma Writes Flat Bans

Many states make a conflicted transaction voidable, curable by disclosure or by consent. Oklahoma states two prohibitions with no exception clause attached.

58 O.S. § 496 says no executor or administrator may directly or indirectly purchase any property of the estate he represents, and may not be interested in any sale. 58 O.S. § 526 says no administrator or executor may purchase a claim against the estate, and that one who pays a claim for less than its nominal value may charge in his account only the amount actually paid. Read them with § 285, which puts your own debt to the decedent on the inventory as an asset of the estate.

Both sections are written without an exception clause, and § 496 reaches being interested in any sale rather than only buying outright, so its wording is wider than the phrase "cannot buy from the estate" suggests. What that means for any particular transaction, including one involving a family buyer, is a question for a licensed Oklahoma attorney before anything is signed.

Where the Standard of Care Comes From

Oklahoma does not send a personal representative to a prudent investor rule. Title 58 carries no cross-reference to a trustee standard for the office, and the words prudent and standard of care appear in that title only for a supervised power of attorney under § 1063 and for a custodian under the transfers to minors sections. Content written from the Uniform Probate Code gets this wrong for Oklahoma.

The duty instead comes out of the accounting rules, which is a narrower and more concrete place to stand:

• 58 O.S. § 522. You are chargeable in your account with the whole estate that comes into your possession, at the appraised value in the inventory, together with all the interest, profit and income of the estate.
• 58 O.S. § 523. You may not profit by an increase, and you do not bear a loss from a decrease or destruction that happens without your fault. Sell part of the estate above the appraisement and you account for the excess. Sell below it and you are not responsible for the shortfall if the sale was justly made.
• 58 O.S. § 524. You are not accountable for debts due to the decedent if it appears they remain uncollected without your fault.

Fault is the hinge in all three. That is the standard an Oklahoma court applies to your account, and it is the reason a contemporaneous file of listing agreements, offers, statements and receipts matters more than a narrative about intentions.

What an Oklahoma Personal Representative Gets Paid

Start with the will. Under 58 O.S. § 525 you are allowed all necessary expenses in the care, management and settlement of the estate, plus the fees the chapter provides. When the will makes some other provision for your compensation, that provision is full compensation for your services, unless you renounce all claim to the compensation the will provides by a written instrument filed in the district court.

With no provision in the will, or after a renunciation, 58 O.S. § 527(A) sets the commission on the whole estate accounted for by you, excluding all property not ranked as assets:

What ends at 6,000 dollars is the graduated ladder, not the fee. Above that line the rate is a flat 2.5 percent with no ceiling. A 250,000 dollar estate produces 50 dollars plus 200 dollars plus 6,100 dollars, which is 6,350 dollars, about 2.54 percent. A 600,000 dollar estate produces 15,100 dollars, about 2.52 percent. Reading the headline 5 percent as the fee on a large estate overstates it by roughly double.

Three qualifiers travel with the schedule. The judge may allow a further amount for any extraordinary service that the judge deems just and reasonable, and § 527(A) caps that allowance at the amount of the commission itself. Under § 527(B), co-executors and co-administrators are entitled as a unit to the same fee a single representative would receive, divided as the court determines unless they agree on a different division and the court approves it. Under § 527(C), a representative who does not serve during the entire administration receives only a portion of the fee, and the court sets that portion.

Accounting, Closing, and the Discharge

58 O.S. § 541 governs the exhibit you file at final settlement, or at any other time the court requires one on its own motion or on the application of an interested person. It shows the money received and expended, the amount of all claims presented against the estate and the names of the claimants, and everything else needed to show the condition of the estate's affairs.

What that exhibit has to show, how the waiver is worded, and what a district judge looks for line by line are the subject of the accounting the court expects.

The same section carries a shortcut worth knowing about early. Where all persons entitled to distribution waive it in writing, or where the personal representative is the sole recipient, no itemized accounting of income and expenses is required in the final accounting. It is then enough to state under oath that all income has been properly received and expenses lawfully made, that all allowed and approved claims have been paid, that all funeral expenses, taxes and costs of administration have been paid, and that the estate is ready for closing. Waivers signed as the administration proceeds are commonly where a cooperative Oklahoma family saves the most work at closing.

Skipping the account is not an option. Under 58 O.S. § 542 the judge must issue a citation requiring you to appear and render it. The final account itself comes under §§ 611 through 613: once the debts are paid under the § 595 order, the court may direct distribution, and where debts remain or the estate is otherwise not in a condition to close, the court gives a reasonable extension for final settlement. A final account and petition for distribution stands for hearing at least 20 days after filing, with mailed notice to known heirs, legatees and devisees at least 10 days before the hearing and publication once each week for two consecutive weeks, under 58 O.S. § 553.

Settlement is durable. 58 O.S. § 556 makes the allowance of the account conclusive against all persons interested in the estate, saving to persons under a legal disability their right to move to reopen the account or to sue you individually or on the bond at any time before final distribution, with the settled account standing as prima facie evidence of its correctness. When the estate has been fully administered and vouchers show that you paid everything due, delivered the property to the parties entitled under the court's order, and performed the acts lawfully required, 58 O.S. § 691 has the court enter a decree discharging you from liability to be incurred after that point.

Resigning, Removal, and Acts That Still Count

Walking away has a sequence. Under 58 O.S. § 231 an executor or administrator may resign at any time by a writing filed in the district court, having first settled the account and delivered up the estate to the person the court appoints to receive it. Where delays in that settlement, or the circumstances of the estate, or the rights of those interested require it, the court may revoke the letters before the settlement finishes and appoint a special or general administrator instead. Resigning does not release you or your sureties: the section says the liability of the outgoing representative and of the sureties on the bond is not discharged, released or affected by the resignation or the new appointment.

Removal has several named triggers across the title, and each one has appeared already: failure to return the inventory under § 288, neglect of the notice to creditors under § 352, and, under 58 O.S. § 712, a representative committed for contempt who stays in custody 30 days without obeying the court's order or purging the contempt, whose letters the court may revoke by an order reciting the facts, without further showing or notice.

Third parties who dealt with you in the meantime are protected. Under 58 O.S. § 232, all acts of an executor or administrator before the revocation of letters are as valid for all purposes as if the representative had continued lawfully in the office.

The Estate's Online Accounts

Oklahoma adopted the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act in 2024, and it took effect November 1 of that year at 58 O.S. §§ 3101 through 3119. The consumer articles that predate it describe a different state of the law.

The account-by-account mechanics sit in the guide to the estate's digital accounts, including the split between the catalog a custodian must disclose under § 3108 and the message content § 3107 releases only on the decedent's consent or a court order.

58 O.S. § 3115 applies the duties of care, loyalty and confidentiality to the management of digital assets, treats a fiduciary acting within the scope of the duties as an authorized user for purposes of computer fraud and unauthorized access law, and gives a right of access to any digital asset the decedent had a right or interest in that no custodian holds. Subsection G sets out what a termination request needs: a certified copy of the death certificate, a certified copy of the letters of appointment, and, if the custodian asks, an account identifier or evidence linking the account to the user. Under 58 O.S. § 3116 the custodian has 60 days to comply, and a fiduciary may apply to the court for an order directing compliance. The older 2010 statute at 58 O.S. § 269, which gives an executor or administrator power over social networking, microblogging and email accounts where otherwise authorized, remains on the books beside the new act.

When to Bring in an Oklahoma Attorney

Nothing on this page tells you what to do in your own estate. Bring in a licensed Oklahoma attorney when an interested person objects to your appointment under § 104, when a bond demand or an appraisement demand lands, when the estate looks insolvent and the § 591 order will decide who goes unpaid, when a beneficiary or a co-representative disputes an entry in your account, and before any transaction that touches §§ 496 or 526. Confirm every date against the current statute and the district court holding the file.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the duties of an executor in Oklahoma?

Take the oath and post any bond the judge orders before letters issue under 58 O.S. § 161 and § 171, take possession of the estate and collect debts owed to it under § 251, return an inventory to the district court within two months of the appointment order under § 281, file the notice to creditors within two months of letters under § 331, pay allowed debts in the order set by § 591, render a sworn accounting under § 541, and ask for the discharge decree under § 691.

Is an executor the same as a personal representative in Oklahoma?

They name one office. 58 O.S. § 11 defines personal representative to include an executor, an administrator, an administrator with will annexed, a conservator, a guardian, and a successor appointed to follow an earlier one. Executor is the everyday word when a will named you. Administrator is the word when no will did. Title 58 uses all three terms, and the duties in the inventory, creditor, payment and accounting chapters apply the same way to each.

When is the Oklahoma probate inventory due?

Within two months from the date of the order of appointment, under 58 O.S. § 281(A), and it goes back to the court rather than staying in your file. The inventory designates the homestead and the exempt personal property. The court may extend the time for good cause shown. Under § 281(B) you may satisfy the appraisement by stating your own opinion of value, and under § 281(C) the court must order a formal appraisement if an heir, devisee, legatee, a creditor who has filed a claim, or a guardian makes written demand.

Does an Oklahoma executor have to post a bond?

Usually the will answers it. Under 58 O.S. § 171 every person to whom letters are directed to issue must execute a bond to the State of Oklahoma with two or more sufficient sureties before receiving them, in a penalty the judge sets after examining the applicant on oath about the value of the personal property and the annual rents from the real property. The same section lets the court order that no bond is required if the circumstances indicate none is necessary. Under § 178, a will that expressly waives bond lets letters issue without one, subject to the court requiring a bond later for good cause.

How much does an Oklahoma executor get paid?

58 O.S. § 527(A) sets a commission on the whole estate accounted for, excluding property not ranked as assets: 5 percent of the first 1,000 dollars, 4 percent of the next 5,000 dollars, and 2.5 percent of everything above 6,000 dollars. The graduated rates stop at 6,000 dollars and the balance earns a flat 2.5 percent with no ceiling, so a 600,000 dollar estate produces about 15,100 dollars, roughly 2.52 percent. The judge may allow more for extraordinary service, capped at the amount of the commission. Under § 527(B) co-executors share one fee as a unit.

Can an Oklahoma personal representative buy something from the estate?

No. 58 O.S. § 496 says no executor or administrator may directly or indirectly purchase any property of the estate he represents, and may not be interested in any sale. 58 O.S. § 526 adds that no administrator or executor may purchase a claim against the estate, and that a representative who pays a claim for less than its nominal value may charge only the amount actually paid. Oklahoma writes both as flat prohibitions rather than as transactions a court or a consenting beneficiary can bless after the fact.

What happens if an Oklahoma executor misses a deadline?

The statutes attach a named consequence to each one. Miss the inventory and 58 O.S. § 288 lets the court revoke your letters on notice and holds you liable on your bond for any injury to the estate. Neglect the notice to creditors for two months after appointment and § 352 says the court must revoke your letters and appoint someone else unless good cause is shown. Skip the notice entirely and § 598 lets a creditor left out of the payment order recover the claim on your bond.

Related Guides

• Oklahoma Executor Compensation
• Oklahoma Creditor Claims in Probate
• Oklahoma Probate Timeline
• Oklahoma Will Requirements
• Oklahoma Probate Courts by County

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• Title: 58 O.S. § 522, Representative chargeable with whole estate. Publisher: Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Statutes Title 58 (Probate Procedure). Publication Date: R.L. 1910, § 6422; compilation through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-02. URL: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os58.pdf
• Title: 58 O.S. § 525, Expenses and compensation. Publisher: Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Statutes Title 58 (Probate Procedure). Publication Date: R.L. 1910, § 6425; Laws 1953, p. 241, § 44; compilation through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-02. URL: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os58.pdf
• Title: 58 O.S. § 527, Fees and commissions. Publisher: Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Statutes Title 58 (Probate Procedure). Publication Date: Amended by Laws 1992, c. 395, § 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1992; compilation through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-02. URL: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os58.pdf
• Title: 58 O.S. § 541, Accounting - Waiver - Sufficiency. Publisher: Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Statutes Title 58 (Probate Procedure). Publication Date: Amended by Laws 1994, c. 234, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; compilation through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-02. URL: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os58.pdf
• Title: 58 O.S. § 591, Order of payment of debts. Publisher: Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Statutes Title 58 (Probate Procedure). Publication Date: Amended by Laws 1980, c. 249, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1980; compilation through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-02. URL: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os58.pdf
• Title: 58 O.S. § 597, Liability of representative after order. Publisher: Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Statutes Title 58 (Probate Procedure). Publication Date: Amended by Laws 1988, c. 228, § 15, emerg. eff. June 22, 1988; compilation through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-02. URL: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os58.pdf
• Title: 58 O.S. § 691, Discharge of representative. Publisher: Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Statutes Title 58 (Probate Procedure). Publication Date: R.L. 1910, § 6486; compilation through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-02. URL: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os58.pdf
• Title: 58 O.S. § 3115, Fiduciary duties and authority. Publisher: Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Statutes Title 58 (Probate Procedure). Publication Date: Added by Laws 2024, c. 115, § 15, eff. Nov. 1, 2024; compilation through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-02. URL: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os58.pdf

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