§ 33-12-15. Preference to citizens of state in distribution of insolvent estate of nonresident. If a person dies insolvent, his or her estate found in this state shall, as far as practicable, be so disposed of that all his or her creditors here and elsewhere may receive each an equal share in proportion to their respective debts. To this end, his or her estate shall not be transmitted to the foreign executor or administrator until all the creditors who are citizens of this state, filing and proving their claims according to law, have received the just proportion that would be due to them if the whole estate of the deceased, wherever found, that is applicable to the payment of creditors, were divided among all the creditors in proportion to their respective debts, without preferring any one species of debt to another, excepting those preferred by the statutes of this state; and no creditor, who is not a citizen of this state, shall be paid out of the assets found here until all those who are citizens have received their just proportion as provided in this section.
History of Section. (C.P.A. 1905, § 856; G.L. 1909, ch. 312, § 42; G.L. 1923, ch. 363, § 42; G.L. 1938, ch. 575, § 40; G.L. 1956, § 33-12-15.)
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