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Letters testamentary in Pennsylvania: what they are, how they differ from letters of administration, who can serve, bond, renouncing, and using them at banks.

The key deadlines a Pennsylvania executor faces, from the inheritance tax discount to the one-year creditor window, with the statute or rule behind each.

Bethlehem straddles the Northampton and Lehigh county line. Which side you lived on decides where the estate is opened — and it is not always obvious.

Where the REV-1500 is actually filed, who has to file it when there is no executor, and how the 5% early-payment discount really works.

Opening an estate at the Northampton County Register of Wills in Easton — what to bring, what you leave with, and the deadlines that begin at the date of death.