Can you sell a house during probate in Georgia?

The law calls that person the personal representative. If a will names them, they are the executor. With no will, the court names an administrator.

Once they have letters, they can sell or rent estate property. They can do it to pay debts, to divide things among the heirs, the family who inherit, or because it is best for the estate. They still need the power to sell, and it comes one of three ways.

It is different when the heirs ask for the power to sell at the start. That takes every heir.

When the family is split, talk early. An objection means a hearing, and a hearing adds time.

A temporary administrator can't sell on their own say. They can ask the court for leave to sell, and they have to show good cause, a solid reason it can't wait.

The bills keep coming while the family decides. Property tax and insurance don't stop, and neither do the lights and the lawn. These are costs of running the estate, and the estate pays them.

Ask the insurer, in writing, what happens to coverage while the house sits empty. If there is a reverse mortgage, the lender has its own clock.

A loan tied to the house gets paid from the sale. The court can make it part of the sale that a lien, a debt tied to the house, moves off the house and onto the sale money.

Creditors get their chance before the heirs are paid. A notice runs in the county paper, starting within 60 days of letters. Creditors then have 3 months after the last notice to come forward.

If your loved one got Medicaid for nursing home care, the state may have a claim. It waives the first $25,000 of the estate for deaths since July 1, 2018. A person in charge who pays the heirs without paying Medicaid back can owe it themselves.

The heirs share what is left.