PROBATE

Applicability of, 865.01

Application, contents, 865.06

Appraisers, 865.12

Attorney's fees, determination of reasonableness, 865.16 (1m)

Claims, personal representative may pay, 865.13

Closing estates by sworn statement, 865.16

Distributees, limitations on actions against, 865.19

Distribution:

  Improper, liability of distributee, 865.14

  Liability of distributees to claimants, 865.17

  Purchasers from distributees protected, 865.15

Dormant estates, 863.35

Formal proceedings, nature, effect, 865.03

Fraud, effect, 865.031

Heirship, determination and proof, optional, 863.23

Incompetents, 880.04 (2m)

Inventory, 858.01, 865.11

Joint tenancy, termination, 865.20

Letters issued to trustee of testamentary trust, applicability of law, 856.29

Letters of trust, issuance, 865.08 (6)

Letters to personal representative, 865.08

Life estates, termination, 865.20

Marital property, survivorship interest, confirmation of, 865.201

Minors, 880.04 (2m)

Notice, method of giving, 865.05, 879.03 (1)

Personal representative:

  Account filed by, exception, 862.01

  Appointment of, 865.08

  Limitations on proceedings against, 865.18

  Powers and duties, 865.09

  Proceed without court order, exception, 865.10

Petition for final judgment, exception, 863.25

Probate registrar:

  Definition, 865.065

  Determinations required of, 865.07

  Duties, time of accrual, 865.09

  Powers, 865.065, 865.09

Proceedings independent, exceptions, 865.04

Receipts to be filed, 865.21

Records of proceedings, 865.01

Registers in probate, duties and powers, 865.01

Tax returns, 865.11

Use, when, 865.02

Will, informally admitted to probate, 856.13

probate 10. intestate succession 10. Intestate Succession
Generally Ch. 852

Advancements, valuation, 852.11

Allowance to spouse, 852.01 (1) (a)

Basic rules, 852.01 (1)

Disclaimer of share, 852.13, 853.40

Escheat, 852.01 (3)

Fraud of surviving spouse, transfer of rights in property, 861.17

Half blood relatives, 852.03 (3)

Heir must survive decedent for 72 hours, 852.01 (2)

Killing the deceased intentionally, 852.01 (2m)

Kinship, computing degrees, 852.03 (2)

Nonmarital children, status, 852.05

Posthumous heirs, 852.03 (4)

Simultaneous death act, 851.55

Spouse, assignment of home as part of share, 852.09

Surviving spouse, right in nondomiciliary decedent's real property in this state, 861.20

probate 11. inventory 11. Inventory
Generally Ch. 858

Appraisal:

  Supplemental, on additional property, 858.17

  When necessary, 858.13

  When not necessary, 858.15

Attorney for persons in military service, information to be furnished to, 858.03

Certification, examination, 858.09

Contents, 858.07

Copy, to persons interested, 858.03

Fees in probate matters, 851.74

Guardian ad litem, information to be furnished to, 858.03

Information to persons interested, 858.03

Interest for life of another, when deemed asset, 700.06

Marital property:

  Presumptions, 858.01

  Value must be filed by personal representative, 858.01

Must be filed by personal representative, when, contents, 858.01

Order to file, 858.05

Partnership, survivor to make, 858.11

Persons interested, to receive statement or copy, 858.03

Supplemental, on additional property, 858.17

probate 12. opening estates 12. Opening Estates
Generally Ch. 856

Administration, who may petition, 856.07

Appointment of personal representative delayed, special administrator appointed, 856.27

Attorney for estate, selection, 856.31

Bond of personal representative, 856.25

Contents of petition for administration, 856.09

Copy of will accompany each notice of hearing, 856.11

Creditor of decedent, may petition after 30 days, 856.07 (2)