Middletown Probate
Michael W. Miller
Probate Judge
Phone: (401) 847-7500

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Related Information: Town Charter Article VI Sec. 609. Appointment of probate judge.

The town council shall appoint, at its first meeting following its election, a member of the bar of the State of Rhode Island to sit as judge of the probate court. Said judge shall serve for a two-year term or until his successor is appointed, or his office abolished. Any person so appointed need not be a resident of Middletown. Whenever such judge of the probate court is a party or interested in any proceeding about to be heard in his court, or is absent or unable to perform his duties, or there is a vacancy in the office of judge, the council shall designate a qualified member of the bar of the State of Rhode Island to act as a probate judge. The fact of such interest, absence, inability or vacancy shall be recorded in the records of said court. (Amended, November 5, 2002.)

Sec. 610. Registry of probate court.

Money and other property now or hereafter deposited in the registry of the probate court pursuant to statutes now or hereafter in effect shall be held, administered and disposed of pursuant to said statutes.

Editor's note. For state law as to deposit of money paid into registry of probate court, see R.I. Gen. Laws, ' 33-22-20. As to practice in probate court generally, see Gen. Laws, ' 33-22-1 et seq.