P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 528a-1
In the case of the of the death of any person, it shall be the duty of any administrator, executor or trustee, or of any of these who acts in Puerto Rico, or of any sub-administrator, agent or person authorized to administer his/her properties or any part thereof in Puerto Rico, to solicit from the Administrator a certification of child support indebtedness.
No court shall approve the division or distribution, sale, delivery, cession or execution of a mortgage on the property of a decedent without deducting and depositing with the court or the Administration, from the product of the public auction, in the name of the deceased obligor, the total amount of the support indebted; and no notary shall authorize, issue or certify any document whatsoever concerning the division, distribution, sale, delivery, cession or mortgage on such property or any hereditary property of the decedent until a certification of indebtedness is obtained from the administrator certifying that said decedent is not indebted on account of child support and no property registrar shall enter in any register whatsoever under his charge, any notarial document, sentence or judicial act granted, pronounced or issued in relation to any division or distribution, sale, delivery or mortgage on such property or any hereditary property of the decedent without a certification of indebtedness from the administrator certifying that said deceased obligor is not indebted on account of child support.
History —Dec. 30, 1986, No. 5, p. 887, added as art. VII, § 30A on Aug. 25, 2005, No. 72, § 1.