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Chapter 1. Jurisdiction in Probate Matters and Probate of Foreign Wills
29-2-1-1. Definitions - Sec. 1. The following terms are defined for this chapter:...
29-2-1-2. Indebtedness to Non-Resident Decedent; Payments to Domiciliary Foreign Personal Representative - Sec. 2. At any time after the expiration of forty-five...
29-2-1-3. Payments to Domiciliary Foreign Personal Representative; Release of Debtor - Sec. 3. Payment or delivery made in good faith on...
29-2-1-4. Payments to Domiciliary Foreign Personal Representative; Notice by Resident Creditor to Debtor as Bar - Sec. 4. Payment of delivery under section 2 of this...
29-2-1-5. Domiciliary Foreign Personal Representative; Filing Copies of Appointment and Bond - Sec. 5. If no local administration or application or petition...
29-2-1-6. Domiciliary Foreign Personal Representative; Powers - Sec. 6. A domiciliary foreign personal representative who has complied...
29-2-1-7. Domiciliary Foreign Personal Representative; Limitation of Powers by Local Personal Representative - Sec. 7. The powers of a domiciliary foreign personal representative...
29-2-1-8. Non-Resident Decedents; Proceedings; Application of Law - Sec. 8. In respect to a non-resident decedent, the provisions...
29-2-1-9. Foreign Personal Representative; Submission to Jurisdiction of State Court - Sec. 9. A foreign personal representative submits himself to the...
29-2-1-10. Foreign Personal Representative; Subjection to Decedent Jurisdiction - Sec. 10. In addition to jurisdiction conferred by section 9...
29-2-1-11. Service of Process on Foreign Personal Representative - Sec. 11. (a) Service of process may be made upon...
29-2-1-12. Adjudications Binding on Personal Representative - Sec. 12. An adjudication rendered in any jurisdiction in favor...
Chapter 2. Probate Commissioners
29-2-2-1. Appointment; Salary - Sec. 1. (a) In all counties of this state containing...
29-2-2-2. Oath of Office; Fees and Compensation - Sec. 2. Said commissioner shall take and subscribe an oath...
29-2-2-3. Oaths; Acknowledgments; Removal From Office - Sec. 3. Said commissioner shall have power to administer oaths,...
29-2-2-4. Duties Defined; Records - Sec. 4. At the time of the appointment of said...
29-2-2-5. Rules for Protection of Trusts; Speedy Transaction of Probate Business - Sec. 5. Such court shall have power to make and...
29-2-2-6. Dispensing With Services; Salary - Sec. 6. At any time after the appointment of such...
Chapter 3. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1982, P.L.1, SEC.71.
Chapter 4. Duties of Probate Commissioner in Counties With Populations From 30,000 to 150,000
29-2-4-1. Report of Findings; Compensation - Sec. 1. In all counties of this state, having a...
Chapter 5. Administration of Estate of Intestate Absentee
29-2-5-1. Five Years Absence; Presumption of Death - Sec. 1. (a) When any resident of Indiana is absent...
29-2-5-2. Discharge of Administrator; Return of Absentee - Sec. 2. Such administrator shall not be discharged on the...
29-2-5-3. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1859, c.4, s.3. Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.289,...
29-2-5-4. Guardians; Appointment - Sec. 4. Such court shall have power to appoint guardians...
29-2-5-5. Distribution of Estates; Bond; Trustee - Sec. 5. (a) The property of such departed person, real...
Chapter 6. Administration of Absentee's Estate Where There Is a Will or Trust
29-2-6-1. Distribution of Estates; Bond; Trustee Appointed - Sec. 1. When any resident of this state shall have...
Chapter 7. Repealed - Repealed by P.L.263-1989, SEC.3.
Chapter 8. Conservatorship of Estate of Missing Serviceman or Seaman
29-2-8-1. Guardians; Appointment; Revocation - Sec. 1. Whenever a person (referred to as an absentee)...
29-2-8-2. Guardian Bond; Powers; Removal and Substitution - Sec. 2. The court shall have full discretionary authority to...
29-2-8-3. Termination of Guardianship; Executor or Administrator - Sec. 3. Upon petition signed by the absentee, or on...
Chapter 9. Repealed - Repealed by P.L.10-2019, SEC.118.
Chapter 10. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1973, P.L.290, SEC.16.
Chapter 11. Waiver by Judge of Period Costs in Certain Cases
29-2-11-1. Estates; Guardianship; Assignments; Trusteeship; Surviving Partnership - Sec. 1. The courts of this state having jurisdiction of...
Chapter 12. Apportionment of Federal Estate Taxes
29-2-12-0.1. Application of Certain Amendments to Chapter - Sec. 0.1. The following amendments to this chapter apply as...
29-2-12-1. Purpose - Sec. 1. The purpose of this chapter is to provide...
29-2-12-1.5. "Will" Defined - Sec. 1.5. As used in this chapter, "will" includes a...
29-2-12-2. Heirs and Beneficiaries; Charitable or Marital Deduction or Exemption - Sec. 2. Unless a decedent shall otherwise direct by will,...
29-2-12-3. Payment; Recovery - Sec. 3. The personal representative of decedent's estate or the...
29-2-12-4. Method of Apportionment - Sec. 4. The portion of the federal estate tax to...
29-2-12-5. Liens - Sec. 5. That portion of said federal estate tax apportioned...
29-2-12-6. Deduction of Amounts; Action for Recovery - Sec. 6. The personal representative of decedent's estate shall, prior...
29-2-12-7. Will Providing for Payment - Sec. 7. (a) This chapter shall not be applicable to...
Chapter 13. Repealed - Repealed by P.L.4-1988, SEC.18.
Chapter 14. Uniform Simultaneous Death Act
29-2-14-1. Disposition of Property; Insufficient Evidence of Survivorship - Sec. 1. Where the title to property or the devolution...
29-2-14-2. Beneficiaries Taking Successively Under Another's Disposition of Property - Sec. 2. Where two (2) or more beneficiaries are designated...
29-2-14-3. Joint Tenants; Tenants by Entirety - Sec. 3. Where there is no sufficient evidence that two...
29-2-14-4. Life or Accident Insurance - Sec. 4. Where the insured and the beneficiary in a...
29-2-14-5. Prior Death - Sec. 5. This chapter shall not apply to the distribution...
29-2-14-6. Wills, Living Trusts; Deeds; Insurance - Sec. 6. This chapter shall not apply in the case...
29-2-14-7. Uniformity of Interpretation - Sec. 7. This chapter shall be so construed and interpreted...
29-2-14-8. Short Title - Sec. 8. This chapter may be cited as the Uniform...
Chapter 15. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1972, P.L.11, SEC.14.
Chapter 16. Repealed - Repealed by P.L.147-2007, SEC.21.
Chapter 16.1. Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
29-2-16.1-1. Definitions - Sec. 1. The following definitions apply throughout this chapter: (1)...
29-2-16.1-2. Chapter Application - Sec. 2. This chapter applies to: (1) an anatomical gift;...
29-2-16.1-3. Persons Who May Make Anatomical Gifts During the Lifetime of a Donor - Sec. 3. Subject to section 7 of this chapter, an...
29-2-16.1-4. Methods of Making Anatomical Gifts - Sec. 4. (a) A donor may make an anatomical gift:...
29-2-16.1-5. Amendment or Revocation of Anatomical Gifts - Sec. 5. (a) Subject to section 7 of this chapter,...
29-2-16.1-6. Refusal of Anatomical Gifts - Sec. 6. (a) An individual may refuse to make an...
29-2-16.1-7. Persons Prohibited From Making, Amending, or Revoking an Anatomical Gift; Donor Revocation of an Anatomical Gift; Unemancipated Minors - Sec. 7. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g)...
29-2-16.1-8. Priority of Persons Authorized to Make an Anatomical Gift of a Decedent's Body or Part - Sec. 8. (a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c), unless...
29-2-16.1-9. Anatomical Gift Documents; Amendments; Revocations - Sec. 9. (a) A person authorized to make an anatomical...
29-2-16.1-10. Anatomical Gift Recipients; Unnamed Recipients; Anatomical Gift Uses; Rules; Delivery of Anatomical Gift Documents; Amendment; Revocation - Sec. 10. (a) An anatomical gift may be made to...
29-2-16.1-11. Searches for Documents of Gift or Refusal - Sec. 11. (a) The following persons shall make a reasonable...
29-2-16.1-12. Petitions to Determine Anatomical Gift or Revocation of Anatomical Gift - Sec. 12. (a) The individual's attending physician, or, if none,...
29-2-16.1-13. Organ or Tissue Donor Queries for Hospital Patients - Sec. 13. (a) As used in this section: (1) "Administrator"...
29-2-16.1-14. Documents of Gift - Sec. 14. (a) A document of gift need not be...
29-2-16.1-15. Hospital Referrals to Procurement Organizations; Record Searches; Examination of Medical Suitability; Rights of Person to Whom a Part Passes - Sec. 15. (a) When a hospital refers an individual at...
29-2-16.1-16. Hospital Agreements With Procurement Organizations - Sec. 16. Each hospital in Indiana shall enter into agreements...
29-2-16.1-17. Liability; Immunity - Sec. 17. (a) A person who acts in accordance with...
29-2-16.1-18. Validity of a Document of Gift - Sec. 18. (a) A document of gift is valid if...
29-2-16.1-19. Bmv, Pla, and Dnr Cooperation With Donor Registries; Requirements of Registry; Personally Identifiable Information - Sec. 19. (a) The bureau of motor vehicles, the professional...
29-2-16.1-20. Declarations and Advance Health Care Directives; Procurement Organizations - Sec. 20. (a) As used in this section: (1) "Advance...
29-2-16.1-21. Coroner Cooperation With Procurement Organizations; Postmortem Examinations; Removal of a Part of Organ From a Decedent - Sec. 21. (a) A coroner shall cooperate with procurement organizations...
Chapter 17. Repealed - Repealed by P.L.149-1991, SEC.6.
Chapter 18. Platting of Certain Property
29-2-18-1. Platting; Town Lots - Sec. 1. Whenever any lands are ordered by any court...
29-2-18-2. Land Not for Sale - Sec. 2. Whenever it shall be manifestly to the interest...
Chapter 19. Funeral Planning Declaration
29-2-19-1. "Declarant" - Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "declarant" means an...
29-2-19-2. "Declaration" - Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "declaration" means a...
29-2-19-3. "Designee" - Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "designee" means an...
29-2-19-4. "Disposition" - Sec. 4. As used in this chapter, "disposition" has the...
29-2-19-5. "Funeral Services" - Sec. 5. As used in this chapter, "funeral services" has...
29-2-19-6. "Grave Memorial" - Sec. 6. As used in this chapter, "grave memorial" has...
29-2-19-7. "Merchandise" - Sec. 7. As used in this chapter, "merchandise" refers to...
29-2-19-8. Funeral Planning Declaration; Requirements - Sec. 8. (a) A person who is of sound mind...
29-2-19-9. Funeral Planning Declaration; Declarant's Preferences - Sec. 9. A declaration may specify the declarant's preferences concerning...
29-2-19-10. Conflict Resolution - Sec. 10. The provisions of a declarant's most recent declaration...
29-2-19-11. Immunity for Good Faith Reliance - Sec. 11. (a) A person who acts in good faith...
29-2-19-12. Funeral Planning Declaration; Form Required; Additional Directions Permitted - Sec. 12. A declaration must be substantially in the form...
29-2-19-13. Form of Funeral Planning Declaration - Sec. 13. The following is the funeral planning declaration form:...
29-2-19-14. Revocation - Sec. 14. A declaration may be revoked by the declarant...
29-2-19-15. Effect of Dissolution, Annulment, or Separation - Sec. 15. Except as otherwise expressly provided in a declaration,...
29-2-19-16. Law Governing a Designee Who Is Unable or Unwilling to Serve - Sec. 16. Except as otherwise provided in a declaration, section...
29-2-19-17. Priority Among Individuals as to Right to Control Disposition of Decedent's Body and Make Other Arrangements - Sec. 17. The right to control the disposition of a...
29-2-19-18. Reliance on Out-of-State Declarations - Sec. 18. A person in Indiana may rely on a...
29-2-19-19. Actions to Contest the Validity of a Funeral Planning Declaration - Sec. 19. An action to contest the validity of any...