when looking at section 606 in the context of the entire probate scheme, it appears the Legislature intended section 606 “to regulate the process of obtaining review” by providing strict guidance for probate proceedings and it did not intend “to limit the court’s adjudicatory authority.” Brooks v. Gov’t of the V.I., 58 V.I. 417, 426 (V.I. 2013). By requiring that the executor or administrator have the first opportunity to decide whether a plaintiff’s claim is meritorious, and in providing an alternative avenue for prompt summary review through the probate proceedings, it is clear that the Legislature intended creditors to file suits outside of the probate proceedings as an option of last resort. 15 V.I.C. § 606(b); see Bramwell v. Heseltine, 122 Ore. 519, 259 P. 1063, 1063-64 (1927) (<HOLDING>). The Oregon Supreme Court interpreted Oregon’s
holding that despite a lack of any formal notice tulsa requirement was satisfied by a showing that because the creditor was also the executor of the estate the creditor had actual notice of the pendency of the estate proceedings holding that a legal malpractice claim arising from errors by an attorney in rendering estateplanning services is properly brought by the personal representative of the estate when excess estate taxes are paid by the estate in contravention of the decedents intended estate plan holding the intent behind an almost identical statute is to protect the estate of the deceased person from litigation over claims which if properly presented might be allowed and paid by the executor or administrator without action holding single coexecutors release of mortgage debt paid to estate was valid and binding on estate because acts of any coexecutor in respect to the administration of the effects of the estate are deemed to be the acts of all as where one releases a debt or settles an account of a person with the deceased or surrenders a term or sells the goods and chattels of the estate his act binds the others characterizing conversion of decedents personal property into cash as act in due course of administration of estate holding that contingent fees are an asset of the partnership in which the estate of a deceased partner is entitled to participate