Comment:
Steven D. Lerner, The Need For Reform in Multistate Estate Administration, 55 TEXAS L. REV. 303 (1976).
 

Abstract:
Current statutory treatment of foreign estates varies widely from state to state. The resulting difficulty in multistate estate planning imposes unjustifiably high costs on the public. Moreover, according to this comment, the justification of mandatory court-supervised ancillary administration as a creditor-protection device rests on unsubstantiated grounds. Thus, mandatory court-supervised ancillary administration truly benefits only one limited class—attorneys. This comment therefore urges individual states to recognize the distinctions between domestic and foreign estate methods for dealing with foreign estates. The author suggests that the promulgation and adoption of a flexible, uniform system of ancillary proceedings could reduce the high cost of administering and planning foreign estates to a level commensurate with legitimate public expectations.