PROBATE

Minors:

  Distribution to, notice of share to court appointing guardian, 863.43

  Transfers to Minors Act, 880.61 to 880.72

Motor vehicle transfer, 342.17 (4)

Notice:

  Construction of will, 863.21

  Heirship, determination and proof, 863.23

Offset, when distributee indebted to estate, 863.15

Partial distribution, before final judgment, 863.01

Partition, by final judgment, 863.17

Petition for final judgment, 863.25

Receipts from guardians, 863.45

Receipts to be filed, 863.41

Receiverships for heirs, 813.026

Remedies, creditors of certain heirs and legatees, 863.46

Right of retention, 863.15

Small estates:

  Summary assignment, 867.02

  Summary settlement, 867.01

  Transfer by affidavit, 867.03

  Ward's summary closing, 880.28

Specific property, distribution before final judgment, 863.01

Summary assignment, claims procedure not to impede, 859.51

Summary discontinuance of inactive estates, 863.49

Summary settlement, claims procedure not to impede, 859.51

Tombstone, allowance for, 863.09

Valuation used in distribution of assets, 863.19

Value used in distribution of fractional shares, 863.16

Ward, distribution to, notice of share to court appointing guardian, 863.43

probate - 8. descent 8. Descent

Adopted child, 48.92 (3), 851.51

Basic will and basic will with trust, see Probate - 18. Wills

Cemetery lots, 157.10

Death of beneficiary, rights of issue, 853.27

Determination of descent of property, 867.05

Disclaimer of intestate share, 852.13, 853.40

Future interests, 700.07

Half-blood, 852.03 (3)

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

Heirs lacking, property escheats, IX, 3

Heirship, certificate of, 867.05 (2)

Home as part of share of surviving spouse, 852.09

Intestate succession, Ch. 852

Judgment determining, 867.05 (3)

Killing the deceased intentionally, 852.01 (2m)

Kinship, computing degrees, 852.03 (2)

Marital children, determination of, 767.60

Nonmarital children, 765.24, 852.05

Remainder to heirs or to issue, meaning, 700.11

Simultaneous death act, 851.55

probate - 9. family rights 9. Family Rights
Generally Ch. 861

Advance, allowance may be charged as, 861.31 (4)

Allowance for spouse and minor children, 861.35

Allowance to family during administration, 861.31

Assignment of property to surviving spouse, exemption from creditors, 861.41

Augmented marital property estate:

  Election of, 861.03

  Elective share, property of surviving spouse charged against, 861.07

  Procedure for electing, 861.11

  Satisfaction and apportionment, 861.09

  Transfers included in, 861.05

Barring election of certain property at death, 861.13

Creditors:

  Allowances for spouse and minor children considered, 861.35 (3)

  Exemption of property to be assigned to surviving spouse, 861.41

Deferred marital property, election, 861.02

Exemption from creditors of property to be assigned to surviving spouse, 861.41

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

Home:

  Definition, 861.41 (4)

  To surviving spouse as assignment against exemption of property from creditors, 861.41 (4)

Marital property, see also Marital Property

  Deferred, election, 861.02

  Ownership at death, 861.01

Personalty, selection by surviving spouse, 861.33

Property rights, transfer in fraud of surviving spouse, 861.17

Satisfaction of nonholding spouse's marital property interest in certain business property, 861.015

Satisfaction of surviving spouse's elective deferred marital property interest in business property, 861.02 (2)

Surviving spouse:

  Exemption from creditors of property to be assigned, 861.41

  Right in nondomiciliary decedent's real property in this state, 861.20

  Selection of personalty, 861.33

probate - 10. informal administration 10. Informal Administration
Generally Ch. 865

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