Section 2-7-305 - Special Administrator; Powers and Duties; No Liability to Creditors

2-7-305. Special administrator; powers and duties; no liability to creditors. The special administrator shall collect and preserve for the personal representative all goods, chattels, debts and effects of the decedent, and all incomes, rents, issues and profits, claims and demands of the estate. He shall take the charge and management of, enter upon, and preserve from damage, waste and injury, the real estate. For any and all necessary purposes he may commence and maintain or defend suits and other legal proceedings as an administrator. He may sell the perishable property as the court or officer may order to be sold, and exercise such other powers as are conferred upon him by his appointment, but in no case is he liable to any creditor on a claim against the decedent.