There is a petition for the Administration of Testamentary Estates, which is filed in accordance with Super. Ct. R. 191 and 15 V.I Code Ann. § 232.

There is a petition for the Administration of Intestate Estate, which is filed in accordance with Super. Ct. R. 191(b), 192(d) and 15 V.I. Code Ann. § 232.

here is a petition for the Settlement without Administration, which is filed in accordance with 15 V.I. Code Ann. § 191 and § 198. Settlement without Administration is permissible that when a person dies intestate, leaving no debts or such debts as his heirs choose to assume and pay. The heirs must accept the estate “purely, simply and unconditionally.”

Finally, there is the petition for the Administration of Ancillary Probate, which is filed in accordance with Super. Ct. R. 210. Where real and/or personal property, located within the United States Virgin Islands has been devised or bequeathed by the written will of a nonresident testator, the devisees or legatees entitled under the will, to the property in the United States Virgin Islands may apply to the Superior Court to be placed in the possession of such property. This procedure is not applicable where the decedent dies intestate.

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