PROBATE

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

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 - 11. intestate succession 11. 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)

Spouse, assignment of home as part of share, 852.09

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