Wisconsin Legislature: 3. Actions Concerning Estates

Temporary guardian, see Guardianships

Trust company:

As personal representative, 223.03 (6) (b)

Foreign, as personal representative, 223.12

Trusts, see Trusts

Wards, see Guardianships

Wills, see Probate and Transfers at Death—19. Wills

probate and transfers at death_2. accounts 2. Accounts

Generally, Ch. 862

Additional as required, 862.01

Chargeable to personal representative, 862.05

Charges and losses, 862.07

Copy to be given to persons interested, 862.11

Deceased personal representative, 862.03 (2)

Examination of personal representative, under oath, 862.15

Failure of personal representative to file, 862.17

Gains or losses, show, 862.07

Hearing on settlement, 862.09

Income, show, 862.07

Incompetent personal representative, 862.03 (1)

Itemize property available for distribution, 862.07

Notice of hearing on settlement, waiver, 862.09

Objections, 862.13

Payments, show, 862.07

Removed personal representatives, 862.03 (3)

Settlement, 862.15

Value at which to account, 862.07

What to contain, 862.07

When personal representative shall account, 862.01

probate and transfers at death_3. actions concerning estates 3. Actions Concerning Estates

Allegation of representative capacity, 891.32

Burden of proof, against heirs, 877.19

Charges made by will unaffected by chapter 877, 877.29

Contribution:

Between heirs, 877.20

Between legatees, devisees, 877.21

Costs and fees, 814.14, 857.07

Declaratory judgment, 806.04 (4)

Defenses by heirs, legatees, 877.38 to 877.40

Discharge of defendant by payment, 877.22

Fraudulent conveyance by decedent, recovery, 859.41

Heirs, legatees; recovery of estate property from, 813.026, 877.18 to 877.42

Inventory as evidence, 877.14

Judgment, satisfaction out of real property, 877.32

Liability of heirs, legatees, order of, limit, 877.28

Limitations:

Claim against decedent or estate, 893.93 (1) (c)

Claims in circuit court, 893.03

Surviving actions, 893.22

Personal representatives:

Accounts as evidence, 877.26

Action against, limitation, conditions, 877.17

Action by, commencement continuation, appeal, execution, 877.06

See also Survival of actions, under this subhead

Damages against personal representative, measure of, 895.02

Execution, authority to prosecute, 877.06

Foreign personal representatives, prosecute and defend, 877.16

Judgment against does not bind estate realty, 877.05

Liability, 877.08

Personal representative of personal representative, authority limited, 877.07

Posthumous children, rights, liabilities, 877.41

Preference in payment of debts, 877.36

Recovery of property:

Estate property from heirs, legatees, 813.026, 877.17 to 877.42

Estate sold by guardian, limitation, 786.50

Property fraudulently sold by decedent, 859.41

Service of summons on personal representatives, 877.03

Survival of actions, 895.01 to 895.04

Limitations, 893.22

Tort, cause of action:

Against decedent, 859.45

In favor of decedent, 877.01

Witnesses to will, rights, liabilities, 877.41

Wrongful death actions, 895.01 to 895.04

probate and transfers at death_4. ancillary procedures 4. Ancillary Procedures

Generally, Ch. 868

Administration:

Agent for service of process, 868.03 (5)

Uniform act, 868.03

Bond, 868.03 (4)

Claims against estates, 868.03 (9) to (11)

Foreign wills:

Certificate or assignment, 868.05

Uniform act, 868.01

Letters, denial, 868.03 (3)

probate and transfers at death_5. bonds 5. Bonds

Generally, Ch. 878

Action on, 878.07

Defense, 878.13