[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR72.47]

[Page 361]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 72--DEATHS AND ESTATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 72.47  Consular action on unproved claim to estate.

    If the evidence of a claimant's right to receive the estate is not 
considered sufficient to relieve the consular officer of his 
responsibility as provisional conservator, he may elect a period of 
time, not less than one year from the date of the decedent's death, 
within which settlement must be effected, in order to obviate 
interminable delay in disposing of the estate. In the consular officer's 
discretion, he may before releasing the estate, require the claimant to 
give bond in an amount fixed by the officer himself to run for such 
period of time as he may designate, in order to protect himself against 
other possible claims against the estate. If claim to the estate is 
still unproved at the expiration of the period set, or the claimant 
refuses to meet the conditions of any bond which the consular officer 
may require, the consular officer should dispose of the entire personal 
estate in the manner prescribed by Sec. 72.46.