Section 1727: Removal of estate administrator
Statutory text (Thai original)
ผู้มีส่วนได้เสียคนหนึ่งคนใดจะร้องขอให้ศาลสั่งถอนผู้จัดการมรดก เพราะเหตุผู้จัดการมรดกละเลยไม่ทำการตามหน้าที่ หรือเพราะเหตุอย่างอื่นที่สมควรก็ได้ แต่ต้องร้องขอเสียก่อนที่การปันมรดกเสร็จสิ้นลงแม้ถึงว่าจะได้เข้ารับตำแหน่งแล้วก็ดี ผู้จัดการมรดกจะลาออกจากตำแหน่งโดยมีเหตุอันสมควรก็ได้ แต่ต้องได้รับอนุญาตจากศาล
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
Any interested person may, prior to the completion of the distribution of the estate, apply to the Court for the discharge of an administrator for reason of neglect of his duties or any other reasonable cause. Even after having assumed his functions, the administrator may resign for any reasonable cause subject, however, to the permission of the Court.
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Firm annotation
Section 1727 is the safety valve when an administrator self-deals, hides assets, or simply stops doing the job. Grounds the court accepts: (1) misappropriation of estate property; (2) failure to file inventory or account within reasonable time; (3) conflicts of interest (e.g., administrator is also a major creditor); (4) becoming incapacitated. The petitioner must show specific facts, not general dissatisfaction. Successful removal also typically requires the petitioner to nominate a replacement.
Cited in 61 Supreme Court decisions (1954 to 2023)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 4769/2566 (2023)
- Decision 2150/2561 (2018)
- Decision 4067/2560 (2017)
- Decision 2569/2559 (2016)
- Decision 2210/2559 (2016)
- Decision 2046/2558 (2015)
- Decision 13399/2556 (2013)
- Decision 9317/2556 (2013)
This list is selected automatically, weighted towards judgments that turn on this section rather than ones that merely recite it when passing sentence. It has not yet been reviewed by the firm.
Most often cited alongside
- Section 1713 15
- Section 1733 6
- Section 1726 4
- Section 1718 4
- Section 1732 4
- Section 1731 4
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