Can someone explain administrator bonds to me? Saw question regarding this and wondered. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: <Huntin4hugheses@aol.com> To: <SOUTH- -KENTUCKY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 10:38 PM Subject: [SCKY] General Question on Administrator Bonds (Mid 1850's to 1860's) > All, > > Can anyone tell me the average time between a persons death and the > issuance of an Administrator bond? > I have located a bond and am trying to determine when the person died > (intestate). > On average, does anyone know if it took months, weeks, days ...... Would > it > have moved faster if there was land involved? > > Guidance is appreciated! > > > Happy New Year! > > Gi > > > ==== SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY Mailing List ==== > > >

Susie, administrator (or administratrix bonds if the person appointed is female) are bonds required of the person named to settle an estate. The bonds are to help insure that the person performs all the odds and ends connected with settling an estate and that they do not decide to quit before the job is done. The amount of the bonds in dollars depends largely upon how much the estate is worth. The record of the bonds are kept by the county clerk, though they are actually Probate Court records. When the court accepts the report of the administrator that the estate is settled, the bonds are discharged (canceled). If the deceased had a will, the person to settle the estate is usually named in it and the will can specify that the person is to act without being bonded. If no one has been named by the deceased, the court will appoint someone to be administrator, almost always someone the family approves, but the court does not have to have the family's approval. I doubt the date on a bond would be of much help in penning down the date of a death, since the process begins with furnishing proof of the death and goes on and on. It is not uncommon at all for it to consume a year or more. I remember one case in Adair County, where a person died in 1946 and the estate was not settled until 1977. Hermit in the Woods ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susie Hiland" <bshiland@insightbb.com> To: <SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [SCKY] General Question on Administrator Bonds (Mid 1850's to 1860's) | Can someone explain administrator bonds to me? Saw question regarding this | and wondered. Thanks! | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: <Huntin4hugheses@aol.com> | To: <SOUTH- -KENTUCKY-L@rootsweb.com> | Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 10:38 PM | Subject: [SCKY] General Question on Administrator Bonds (Mid 1850's to | 1860's) | | | > All, | > | > Can anyone tell me the average time between a persons death and the | > issuance of an Administrator bond? | > I have located a bond and am trying to determine when the person died | > (intestate). | > On average, does anyone know if it took months, weeks, days ...... Would | > it | > have moved faster if there was land involved? | > | > Guidance is appreciated! | > | > | > Happy New Year! | > | > Gi | > | > | > ==== SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY Mailing List ==== | > | > | > | | | | ==== SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY Mailing List ==== | |