Section 5-402 - When mandatory.
§ 5-402. When mandatory.
A proceeding for judicial probate shall be instituted at any time before administrative probate or within the period after administrative probate provided by § 5-304.
(a) At the request of an interested person;
(b) By a creditor in the event that there has been no administrative probate;
(c) If it appears to the court or the register that the petition for administrative probate is materially incomplete or incorrect in any respect;
(d) If the will has been torn, mutilated, burned in part, or marked in a way as to make a significant change in the meaning of the will;
(e) If it is alleged that a will is lost or destroyed.
[An. Code 1957, art. 93, § 5-402; 1974, ch. 11, § 2.]