Chapter 4. Compelling Account of California Probate Code >> Division 7. >> Part 8. >> Chapter 4.

Subject to the provisions of this chapter, if the personal representative does not file a required account, the court shall compel the account by punishment for contempt.

(a) A citation shall be issued, served, and returned, requiring a personal representative who does not file a required account to appear and show cause why the personal representative should not be punished for contempt.
  (b) If the personal representative purposefully evades personal service of the citation, the personal representative shall be removed from office.

If the personal representative does not appear and file a required account, after having been duly cited, the personal representative may be punished for contempt or removed from office, or both, in the discretion of the court.