District Court Denver Probate Court ________________________________________ County, Colorado Court Address: IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: Deceased: COURT USE ONLY Case Number: Attorney or Party Without Attorney (Name and Address): Phone Number: FAX Number: E-mail: Atty. Reg.#: Division Courtroom PETITION TO RE-OPEN ESTATE PURSUANT TO 15-12-1008, C.R.S. 1. Petitioner (Name), _________________________________________________________________________________________ as _____________________________________________________________ is an interested person (Section 15-10-201, C.R.S.) 2. The estate has been settled and the personal representative has been discharged or one year has passed since the closing statement has been filed with the court. 3. Petitioner desires to re-open the estate to: distribute property briefly described as: ______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ other: _______________________________________________________________________________________________. 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name, address and telephone number of the nominee for Personal Representative _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ is the previously appointed representative; or The previously appointed personal representative is unable or unwilling to serve and _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name, address and telephone number of the nominee for Personal Representative _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ is 21 years of age or older, and has priority for appointment as personal representative because of nomination by the will. statutory priority. (Section 15-12-203, C.R.S.) reasons stated in the attached explanation. Those persons having prior or equal rights to appointment have renounced their rights to appointment or have received notices of these proceedings. Any required renouncements accompany this petition. (Section 15-12-310, C.R.S.) 5. The distributees have not changed from the original proceedings. The distributees have changed. (See attached list.) PETITIONER requests that the Court, after such notice as it may direct, re-open the estate and appoint ____________________________________________________________________________________as Personal Representative issue Letters of appointment to the Personal Representative. upon reporting to the Court that the above purposes have been accomplished, discharge the Personal Representative and re-close the estate. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATE: __________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Signature of Petitioner (Print name, address & tele.# below) ________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Signature of Attorney for Petitioner (Print name below) _________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Note: This form may not be used to re-open an estate closed pursuant to Section 15-12-1009, C.R.S. CPC 58 R7/00 PETITION TO RE-OPEN ESTATE PURSUANT TO 15-12-1008, C.R.S. 1 2001 © American LegalNet, Inc.