TITLE LVI
PROBATE COURTS AND DECEDENTS' ESTATES

CHAPTER 547
JUDGES OF PROBATE AND THEIR JURISDICTION

Disqualifications and Vacancies

Section 547:19-c

    547:19-c Retired Judges of Probate. – Each judge of the probate court retired therefrom by age limitation who has served on such court shall upon retirement become a referee. Such referees shall be empowered to act as such in the probate courts, and their powers and the procedures for hearings before them shall be determined by statute or rule of court. Such referees shall be allowed their expenses and a per diem compensation determined by the supreme court upon recommendation by the judicial branch administrative council, established pursuant to supreme court rule.

Source. 1979, 409:1. 1992, 284:55, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.