PROBATE AND TRANSFERS AT DEATH

Definitions, 861.018

Home, assignment to spouse, 861.21

Ownership at death, 861.01

Personal liability of recipients, 861.07

Procedure for electing, 861.08

Right to elect, 861.09

Satisfaction of , 861.06

Third-party payers, liability, 861.11

Waiver of election, 861.10

Personalty, selection by surviving spouse or children 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

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 and Transfers at Death 9. General Rules for Transfers at Death 9. General Rules for Transfers at Death
Generally, Ch. 854

Adopted person, status, 854.20, 854.21

Advancements, 854.09

Applicable law, 854.10

Classes of family beneficiaries, see Family members, under this subhead

Contest of governing instrument, penalty clauses against, 854.19

Definitions, 854.01

Divorce or dissolution of marriage, effect, 854.15

Encumbered property, no exoneration, 854.05

Failed transfers and residue, 854.07

Family members:

Persons included, 854.21

Transfers to groups or classes, 854.22

Nonademption of specific gifts in certain cases, 854.08

Order in which assets apportioned, abatement, 854.18

Predeceased transferee, 854.06

Representation, per stirpes, per capita; distributions by, 854.04

Scope of ch. 854, 854.02

Federal preemption, effect, 854.26

Securities, 854.11

Survival requirement, 854.03

Third-party liability:

Buyers of property, 854.24

Payers to beneficiaries, 854.23

Recipients not for value, 854.25

PROBATE AND TRANSFERS AT DEATH 10. Informal Administration 10. Informal Administration
Generally, Ch. 865

Applicability of, 865.01

Application, contents, 865.06

Appraisers, 865.12

Attorney 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)

Interests in property not covered by sections 865.20 or 865.201, transfer, 865.202

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 and Transfers at Death 11. Intestate Succession 11. Intestate Succession
Generally, Ch. 852

Advancements on transfers at death, effect, 854.09