{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-700.3714","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.3714","heading":"Persons dealing with personal representative; protection.","body":"Sec. 3714.\n\nA person who in good faith either assists a personal representative or deals with the personal representative for value is protected as if the personal representative properly exercised a power. The fact that a person knowingly deals with a personal representative does not alone require the person to inquire into the existence of a power or the propriety of its exercise.\n\nExcept for restrictions on powers of supervised personal representatives that are endorsed on letters as provided in section 3504, a provision in a will or court order purporting to limit a personal representative's power is not effective except as to a person with actual knowledge of the limit.\n\nA person is not bound to see to the proper application of estate property paid or delivered to a personal representative.\n\nThe protection under this section extends to instances in which a procedural irregularity or jurisdictional defect occurs in a proceeding leading to the issuance of letters, including a case in which the alleged decedent is found to be alive. The protection under this section does not substitute for the protection provided by a comparable provision of law relating to a commercial transaction or a law simplifying a transfer of securities by a fiduciary. Nothing in this section discharges a lien for transfer taxes that may affect title to estate property.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 700","Act Act-386-of-1998"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-700-3714","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"eae1df07bb3669d3a2b5b17c75a193a7c6bf6d60da8ec098696ace6487e86549","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-700.3713","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-700.3715"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}