22 C.F.R. § 72.47 Consular action on unproved claim to estate.
Title 22 - Foreign Relations
If the evidence of a claimant's right to receive the estate is not considered sufficient to relieve the consular officer of his responsibility as provisional conservator, he may elect a period of time, not less than one year from the date of the decedent's death, within which settlement must be effected, in order to obviate interminable delay in disposing of the estate. In the consular officer's discretion, he may before releasing the estate, require the claimant to give bond in an amount fixed by the officer himself to run for such period of time as he may designate, in order to protect himself against other possible claims against the estate. If claim to the estate is still unproved at the expiration of the period set, or the claimant refuses to meet the conditions of any bond which the consular officer may require, the consular officer should dispose of the entire personal estate in the manner prescribed by §72.46.
Title 22: Foreign Relations
PART 72—DEATHS AND ESTATES
Personal Estates of Deceased Citizens
§ 72.47 Consular action on unproved claim to estate.
