CHAPTER 29A-2
INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS
PART 1. INTESTATE SUCCESSION.
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Intestate estate.
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Share of the spouse.
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Shares of heirs other than surviving spouse.
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Requirement that heir survive decedent for 120 hours.
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No taker.
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Representation.
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Kindred of half blood.
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Afterborn heirs.
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Advancements.
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Debts to decedent.
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Alienage.
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Dower and curtesy abolished.
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Individual related to decedent through two lines.
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Parent and child relationships.
PART 2. ELECTIVE SHARE OF SURVIVING SPOUSE.
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Definitions.
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Elective share.
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Computation of augmented estate.
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Decedent's net probate estate.
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Decedent's nonprobate transfers to others.
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Decedent's nonprobate transfers to surviving spouse.
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Surviving spouse's property and nonprobate transfers to others.
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Exclusions, valuation, and overlapping application.
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Sources from which elective shares payable.
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Personal liability of recipients.
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Proceeding for elective share--Time limit.
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Right of election personal to surviving spouse.
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Waiver of right to elect and of other rights.
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Protection of payors and other third parties.
PART 3. SPOUSE AND CHILDREN UNPROVIDED FOR IN WILLS.
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Entitlement of spouse--Premarital will.
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Omitted children.
PART 4. EXEMPT PROPERTY AND ALLOWANCES.
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Applicable law.
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Homestead allowance.
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Family allowance.
PART 5. WILLS, WILL CONTRACTS, AND CUSTODY AND DEPOSIT OF WILLS.
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Who may make a will.
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Holographic will--Validity of non-holographic will--Establishing intent.
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Writings intended as wills, etc.
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Self-proved will.
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Who may witness.
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Choice of law as to execution.
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Revocation by writing or by act.
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Revocation by change of circumstances.
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Revival of revoked will.
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Incorporation by reference.
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Testamentary additions to trusts.
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Events of independent significance.
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Separate writing identifying devise of certain types of tangible personal property.
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Contracts concerning succession.
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Deposit of will with court in testator's lifetime.
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Duty of custodian of will--Liability.
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Penalty clause for contest.
PART 6. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION APPLICABLE ONLY TO WILLS.
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Scope.
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Will may pass all property and after-acquired property.
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Anti-lapse--Deceased devisee--Class gifts.
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Failure of testamentary provision.
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Increase in securities--Accessions.
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Nonademption of specific devises--Unpaid proceeds of sale, condemnation, or insurance--Sale by conservator or agent.
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Nonexoneration.
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Exercise of power of appointment.
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Ademption by satisfaction.
PART 7. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION APPLICABLE TO WILLS AND OTHER GOVERNING
INSTRUMENTS.
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Scope.
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Requirement of survival by 120 hours.
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Choice of law as to meaning and effect of governing instrument.
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Power of appointment--Meaning of specific reference requirement.
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Class gifts construed to accord with intestate succession.
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Reserved.
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Survivorship with respect to future interests under terms of trust.
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Class gifts to "descendants," "issue," or "heirs of the body"--Form of distribution if none
specified.
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Distribution by representation or per stirpes.
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Worthier-title doctrine abolished.
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Interest in "heirs" and like.
PART 8. GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING PROBATE AND NONPROBATE
TRANSFERS.
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Disclaimer of property interest.
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Effect of divorce, annulment, and decree of separation.
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Effect of homicide on intestate succession, wills, trusts, joint assets, life insurance, and
beneficiary designations.
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Revocation of probate and nonprobate transfers by divorce--No revocation by other
changes of circumstances.