AB645, s. 72 12Section 72. 766.58 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,18,1413 766.58 (3m) Chapter 854 applies to transfers at death under a marital property
14agreement.
AB645, s. 73 15Section 73. 766.587 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,18,2216 766.587 (6) Rights of surviving spouse. Notwithstanding the fact that an
17agreement under this section is in effect at, or has terminated before, the death of
18a spouse who is a party to the agreement, the surviving spouse may elect under ss.
19s. 861.02 (1) and 861.03. For the purpose of the election, in addition to the property
20described in s. 851.055, property acquired during marriage and after the
21determination date which would have been marital property but for the agreement
22is deferred marital property.
AB645, s. 74 23Section 74. 766.589 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,19,524 766.589 (7) Rights of surviving spouse. Notwithstanding the fact that an
25agreement under this section is in effect at, or has terminated before, the time of

1death of a spouse who is party to the agreement, the surviving spouse may elect
2under ss. s. 861.02 and 861.03. For the purpose of the election, in addition to the
3property described in s. 851.055, property acquired during marriage and after the
4determination date which would have been marital property but for the agreement
5is deferred marital property.
AB645, s. 75 6Section 75. 766.61 (2) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,19,157 766.61 (2) (c) 2. If within 14 business days after receiving the notice of claim
8the issuer receives at its home office, as purporting to support the notice of claim, a
9decree, marital property agreement, written directive signed by the beneficiary and
10surviving spouse, consent under sub. (3) (e) or proof that a legal action has been filed,
11including a copy of an election filed pursuant to s. 861.03 861.08 (1), to secure an
12interest as evidenced in such a document, the issuer shall make payment or take
13action on the policy after the issuer receives from a court or from the claimant and
14the person directing action or payment written documentation indicating that the
15dispute has been resolved.
AB645, s. 76 16Section 76. 767.266 (title) of the statutes is renumbered 767.266 (1) (title).
AB645, s. 77 17Section 77. 767.266 (title) of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,19,18 18767.266 (title) Effect on transfers at death.
AB645, s. 78 19Section 78. 767.266 of the statutes is renumbered 767.266 (1) (intro.) and
20amended to read:
AB645,19,2521 767.266 (1) (title) Revocation of nontestamentary disposition provision
22death provisions in marital property agreement. (intro.) Unless the judgment
23provides otherwise, a judgment of annulment, divorce or legal separation revokes a
24provision in a marital property agreement under s. 766.58 which provides that
25provides for any of the following:
AB645,20,3
1(a) That, upon the death of either spouse, any of either or both spouses'
2property, including after-acquired property, passes without probate to a designated
3person, trust or other entity by nontestamentary disposition.
AB645, s. 79 4Section 79. 767.266 (1) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,20,65 767.266 (1) (b) That one or both spouses will make a particular disposition in
6a will or other governing instrument, as defined in s. 854.01.
AB645, s. 80 7Section 80. 767.266 (2) of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,20,128 767.266 (2) Revocation of revocable transfers at death. Unless sub. (1)
9applies, revocation of revocable transfers at death by a former spouse to the other
10former spouse, or to relatives of the other former spouse, under an instrument
11executed before the judgment of annulment, divorce or legal separation is governed
12by s. 854.15.
AB645, s. 81 13Section 81. 815.56 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,20,20 14815.56 Sheriff's deed; grantee if purchaser dead. In case the person who
15would be entitled to a deed of real estate sold on execution dies before the delivery
16of that deed the sheriff shall execute a deed to the person's executors or
17administrators. The real estate so conveyed shall be held in trust for the use of the
18heirs or devisees of the deceased person, subject to the surviving spouse's right to
19elect under ss. s. 861.02 (1) and 861.03, but may be sold for the payment of debts in
20the same manner as lands of which the person died seized.
AB645, s. 82 21Section 82. 851.001 of the statutes is repealed.
AB645, s. 83 22Section 83. Subchapter I (title) of chapter 851 [precedes 851.002] of the
23statutes is created to read:
AB645,20,2424 Chapter 851
AB645,21,2
1Subchapter I
2 Definitions
AB645, s. 84 3Section 84. 851.002 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,21,5 4851.002 Definitions. The definitions in ss. 851.01 to 851.29 851.31 apply to
5chs. 851 to 882.
AB645, s. 85 6Section 85. 851.035 of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,21,8 7851.035 Conscious presence. "Conscious presence" means within the range
8of any of a person's senses.
AB645, s. 86 9Section 86. 851.055 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB645,21,13 10851.055 Deferred marital property. "Deferred marital property" means any
11property that is not classified by ch. 766, that was acquired while the spouses were
12married and that would have been classified as marital property under ch. 766 if it
13had been acquired when ch. 766 applied.
AB645, s. 87 14Section 87. 851.065 of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,21,17 15851.065 Devise. "Devise", when used as a noun, means a testamentary
16disposition of any real or personal property by will. "Devise", when used as a verb,
17means to dispose of any real or personal property by will.
AB645, s. 88 18Section 88. 851.13 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,21,22 19851.13 Issue. "Issue" means children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren,
20and lineal descendants of more remote degrees, including those who occupy that
21relation by reason of adoption under s. 851.51 854.20 and nonmarital children and
22their lineal descendants to the extent provided by s. 852.05.
AB645, s. 89 23Section 89. 851.27 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,22,2 24851.27 Property. "Property" means any interest, legal or equitable, in real or
25personal property, without distinction as to kind, including money, rights of a

1beneficiary under a contractual arrangement, choses in action and anything else
2that may be the subject of ownership
.
AB645, s. 90 3Section 90. 851.30 of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,22,5 4851.30 Surviving spouse. (1) Subject to sub. (2), "surviving spouse" means
5a person who was married to the decedent at the time of the decedent's death.
AB645,22,6 6(2) "Surviving spouse" does not include any of the following:
AB645,22,117 (a) An individual who obtains or consents to a final decree or judgment of
8divorce from the decedent or an annulment of their marriage, if the decree or
9judgment is not recognized as valid in this state, unless they subsequently
10participate in a marriage ceremony purporting to marry each other or they
11subsequently hold themselves out as husband and wife.
AB645,22,1412 (b) An individual who, following an invalid decree or judgment of divorce or
13annulment obtained by the decedent, participates in a marriage ceremony with a 3rd
14individual.
AB645,22,1615 (c) An individual who was party to a valid proceeding concluded by an order
16purporting to terminate all property rights based on the marriage.
AB645, s. 91 17Section 91. 851.31 of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,22,21 18851.31 Will. "Will" includes a codicil and any document incorporated by
19reference in a testamentary document under s. 853.32 (1) or (2). "Will" does not
20include a copy, unless the copy has been proven as a will under s. 856.17, but "will"
21does include a properly executed duplicate original.
AB645, s. 92 22Section 92. 851.35 of the statutes is renumbered 854.17.
AB645, s. 93 23Section 93. Subchapter II (title) of chapter 851 [precedes 851.40] of the
24statutes is created to read:
AB645,22,2525 Chapter 851
AB645,23,2
1Subchapter II
2 General probate provisions
AB645, s. 94 3Section 94. 851.50 of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,23,6 4851.50 Status of adopted persons. The status of adopted persons for
5purposes of inheritance and transfers under wills or other governing instruments,
6as defined in s. 854.01, is governed by ss. 854.20 and 854.21.
AB645, s. 95 7Section 95. 851.51 (title) of the statutes is repealed.
AB645, s. 96 8Section 96. 851.51 (1) and (2) of the statutes are renumbered 854.20 (1) and
9(2) and amended to read:
AB645,23,1510 854.20 (1) Inheritance rights between adopted person and adoptive
11relatives.
A Subject to sub. (4), a legally adopted person is treated as a natural birth
12child of the person's adoptive parents for purposes of intestate succession by, through
13and from the adopted person and for purposes of any statute conferring rights upon
14children, issue or relatives in connection with the law of intestate succession or wills
15governing instruments.
AB645,23,19 16(2) (title) Inheritance rights between adopted person and natural birth
17relatives.
A Subject to sub. (4), a legally adopted person ceases to be treated as a
18child of the person's natural birth parents for the same purposes as under sub. (1),
19except:
AB645,23,2220 (a) If a natural birth parent marries or remarries and the child is adopted by
21the stepparent, for all purposes the child is treated as the child of the child's natural
22birth parent for all purposes; whose spouse adopted the child.
AB645,24,323 (b) If a natural birth parent of a marital child dies and the other natural birth
24parent remarries and the child is adopted by the stepparent, the child is treated as
25the child of the deceased natural birth parent for purposes of inheritance through

1that parent and for purposes of any statute conferring rights upon children, issue or
2relatives of that parent under the law of intestate succession or wills governing
3instruments
.
AB645, s. 97 4Section 97. 851.51 (3) of the statutes is repealed.
AB645, s. 98 5Section 98. 851.55 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB645,24,8 6851.55 Simultaneous death. The transfer of or title to property that depends
7upon priority of death with respect to 2 or more persons who die simultaneously is
8governed by s. 854.03.
AB645, s. 99 9Section 99. 852.01 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,24,1410 852.01 (1) Who are heirs. (intro.) The Except as modified by the decedent's
11will under s. 852.10 (1), any part of the
net estate of a decedent which the decedent
12has
that is not disposed of by will, whether the decedent dies without a will, or with
13a will which does not completely dispose of the decedent's estate,
passes to the
14decedent's surviving heirs as follows:
AB645, s. 100 15Section 100. 852.01 (1) (b) and (d) of the statutes are amended to read:
AB645,24,2016 852.01 (1) (b) To the issue, the share of the estate not passing to the spouse
17under par. (a), or the entire estate if there is no surviving spouse ; if the issue are all
18in the same degree of kinship to the decedent they take equally, but if they are of
19unequal degree then
. If there are issue other than children, those of more remote
20degrees take by representation per stirpes.
AB645,24,2221 (d) If there is no surviving spouse, issue or parent, to the brothers and sisters
22and the issue of any deceased brother or sister by representation per stirpes.
AB645, s. 101 23Section 101. 852.01 (1) (e) of the statutes is repealed.
AB645, s. 102 24Section 102. 852.01 (1) (f) of the statutes is renumbered 852.01 (1) (f) (intro.)
25and amended to read:
AB645,25,2
1852.01 (1) (f) (intro.) If there is no surviving spouse, issue, parent or issue of
2a parent, to the grandparents and their issue as follows:
AB645, s. 103 3Section 103. 852.01 (1) (f) 1. of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,25,64 852.01 (1) (f) 1. One-half to the maternal grandparents equally if both survive,
5or to the surviving maternal grandparent; if both maternal grandparents are
6deceased, to the issue of the maternal grandparents or either of them, per stirpes.
AB645, s. 104 7Section 104. 852.01 (1) (f) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,25,98 852.01 (1) (f) 2. One-half to the paternal relations in the same manner as to
9the maternal relations under subd. 1.
AB645, s. 105 10Section 105. 852.01 (1) (f) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
AB645,25,1311 852.01 (1) (f) 3. If either the maternal side or the paternal side has no surviving
12grandparent or issue of a grandparent, the entire estate to the decedent's relatives
13on the other side.
AB645, s. 106 14Section 106. 852.01 (1) (g) of the statutes is repealed.
AB645, s. 107 15Section 107. 852.01 (2) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB645,25,1716 852.01 (2) Survivorship requirement. Survivorship under sub. (1) is
17determined as provided in s. 854.03.
AB645, s. 108 18Section 108. 852.01 (2m) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB645,25,2019 852.01 (2m) Heir who kills decedent. If a person under sub. (1) killed the
20decedent, the inheritance rights of that person are governed by s. 854.14.
AB645, s. 109 21Section 109. 852.03 (1) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB645,25,2322 852.03 (1) Per stirpes. If per stirpes distribution is called for under s. 852.01
23(1) (b), (d) or (f), the rules under s. 854.04 apply.
AB645, s. 110 24Section 110. 852.03 (2) of the statutes is repealed.
AB645, s. 111 25Section 111. 852.03 (3) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB645,26,2
1852.03 (3) Relatives of the half blood. Inheritance rights of relatives of the
2half blood are governed by s. 854.21 (4).
AB645, s. 112 3Section 112. 852.03 (4) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB645,26,54 852.03 (4) Posthumous heirs. Inheritance rights of a person specified in s.
5852.01 (1) who was born after the death of the decedent are governed by s. 854.21 (5).
AB645, s. 113 6Section 113. 852.03 (5) and (6) of the statutes are created to read:
AB645,26,87 852.03 (5) Related through 2 lines. Inheritance rights of a person who is
8related to the decedent through 2 lines of relationship are governed by s. 854.21 (6).
AB645,26,11 9(6) Taking through or by alien. No person is disqualified from taking as an
10heir because the person or a person through whom he or she claims is not or at some
11time was not a U.S. citizen.
AB645, s. 114 12Section 114. 852.05 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 852.05 (1) (intro.) and
13amended to read:
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