As amended through January 4, 2024
Rule 6.11.2 - Distribution Under Section 3534 Of P.E.F. Code.(a) Where at the time of distribution of the estate the personal representative or a distributee requests the Court to divide, partition, and allot the real estate or to direct a sale thereof, an interlocutory decree shall be entered fixing a day certain, not less than twenty (20) days from the date of the interlocutory decree, for hearing; the interlocutory decree to be entered shall be in the form of a notice to all parties in interest that on the day so fixed for hearing the Court will hear the contentions of the parties in interest with respect to: (1) whether the real estate can be divided among less than all of the parties in interest without prejudice to or spoiling the whole and if so, how; and(2) whether the Court should direct the personal representative to sell at a sale confined to the distributees or at a private or public sale not so confined. (b) A copy of the interlocutory decree, duly certified, shall be served by certified or registered mail, by the personal representative, upon all parties in interest, not less than ten (10) days before the return day fixed in the decree; proof of service of notice, in the form of return receipts, to be filed upon the return day.