Every claim shall be signed by the claimant or the claimant's authorized representative. Every claim which is due when presented to the personal representative shall state the exact amount claimed and shall state with reasonable particularity the nature and source of the claim, and if the claim is secured by a security interest, mortgage or other lien which has been filed or recorded according to law, a brief description of such interest, mortgage or lien and of the collateral covered thereby shall be stated in the claim. If the claim be not due when presented, or be contingent, the particulars of such claim must be stated. The personal representative may require satisfactory vouchers or proofs or other evidence to be produced in support of the claim. If the estate is insolvent, no greater rate of interest shall be allowed upon any claim, after the first publication of notice to creditors, than is allowed by law on judgments obtained in the district court.
Amended by Laws 1988, c. 228, § 9, emerg. eff. June 22, 1988.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§58-1. Probate jurisdiction and venue of district court.
§58-6. Venue in certain cases.
§58-7. Jurisdiction coextensive with state.
§58-8. Transfer of old matters authorized.
§58-9. Transfers already made legalized.
§58-10. Transfer to county of domicile of minor or ward.
§58-11. Personal representative defined.
§58-21. Custodian of will to deliver same to district court.
§58-22. Who may petition court for proof of will.
§58-23. Requisites of petition for probate.
§58-24. Court may compel production of will by one having possession.
§58-24.1. Preservation of original will - Removal from custody.
§58-25. Hearing - Notice, how given.
§58-26. Heirs, legatees, devisees and executors to be given notice by mail.
§58-27. Powers of judge at chambers.
§58-28. Proof of notice - Waiver of notice.
§58-29. Contest before probate - Persons entitled.
§58-30. Admission on testimony of one subscribing witness.
§58-31. Olographic will, how proved.
§58-34. Mailing and proof of mailing - Persons authorized to make.
§58-41. Proceedings on contest.
§58-43. Witnesses on trial of contest - Depositions.
§58-44. Recording of testimony - Admissibility.
§58-51. Foreign wills recorded.
§58-52. Petition - Hearing - Notice - Summary administration.
§58-61. Causes for contesting will after probate.
§58-62. Citations issued to whom.
§58-63. Petition and notices when another will offered.
§58-64. Hearing and judgment - New will, admitting to probate.
§58-67. Probate conclusive, when.
§58-81. Proceedings in case of lost will.
§58-82. Special requisites of proof.
§58-83. Court's certificate - Filing - Letters testamentary.
§58-84. Restraint of former administration.
§58-91. Nuncupative wills, how proved.
§58-92. Nuncupative wills - Special requirements.
§58-93. Proceedings in contest.
§58-101. Letters to issue to executor or successor in interest of corporate executor.
§58-102. Who incompetent as executor.
§58-103. Failure of executors.
§58-104. Objections to issue of letters - Letters of administration with will annexed.
§58-105. Death of an executor.
§58-106. Executor disqualified by absence or minority.
§58-107. Two or more personal representatives.
§58-108. Presumed renunciation of executorship.
§58-109. Administrators with will annexed - Authority - Letters.
§58-110. Form of letters testamentary.
§58-111. Letters of administration with will annexed, form of.
§58-121. Letters of administration.
§58-122. Persons entitled to letters of administration.
§58-124. Where several equally entitled - Creditors.
§58-125. Letters to guardian of minor entitled.
§58-126. Who incompetent as administrator.
§58-127. Requisites of petition for administration.
§58-129. Contest of petition - Notice.
§58-130. Hearing of the petition - Order.
§58-131. Court entry as to proof conclusive.
§58-132. Letters granted to applicant where no contest.
§58-133. Proof of death intestate.
§58-134. Nomination of stranger by person entitled.
§58-135. Revocation in favor of person entitled.
§58-136. Notice of such petition.
§58-138. Surviving spouse - Assertion of prior right.
§58-162. Nonresident representative must appoint agent.
§58-171. Necessity and requisites of bond.
§58-174. Separate bond for each person - Exception.
§58-175. Successive recoveries on the bond.
§58-176. Justification of sureties - Approval of bond - Examination of sureties.
§58-177. Executor or administrator deposed when bond insufficient.
§58-179. Petition when bond insufficient - Further security.
§58-180. Issuance and service of citations.
§58-181. Hearing and order - New bond.
§58-182. Revocation of letters for failure to file new bond.
§58-184. Bond insufficient - Citation on personal knowledge of judge.
§58-185. Release, application by surety for - Issuance and service of citation.
§58-186. Release allowed, when.
§58-187. Refusal to give new sureties - Revocation of letters.
§58-188. Hearings out of term time.
§58-211. Special administrators appointed, when.
§58-212. How appointed - Notice.
§58-214. Bond and oath of special administrator.
§58-215. Duties of special administrator.
§58-216. Special administrator superseded by regular appointee.
§58-217. Account, special administrator must render.
§58-218. Letters of administration revoked on proof of will.
§58-219. Rights of executor or administrator with will annexed.
§58-220. Surviving executor or administrator - Duties.
§58-221. New administrator appointed, when.
§58-231. Resignation and settlement - Revoking letters.
§58-232. Acts before revocation of letters are valid.
§58-233. Proof of appointment.
§58-234. Duty of judge in case of embezzlement - Reports.
§58-235. Citation on suspension - Revocation of letters.
§58-236. Hearing of the issues.
§58-237. Attendance of executor or administrator may be compelled.
§58-238. Notice by publication, when.
§58-242. Probate of will as conclusive.
§58-243. Limitation of claims.
§58-245. Petition for summary administration - Conditions - Requirements.
§58-246. Petition for summary administration - Notice.
§58-247. Petition for summary administration - Hearing - Order.
§58-251. Powers and duties of executors and administrators.
§58-253. Action for waste, trespass and conversion.
§58-254. Certain actions against representatives.
§58-256. Action against predecessor.
§58-258. Compromise with debtors allowable.
§58-259. Fraudulent conveyances, recovery of.
§58-260. Creditors must secure costs.
§58-261. Sale of realty recovered.
§58-263. Conducting going business.
§58-264. Borrowing money to pay taxes - Mortgage or pledge of assets.
§58-266. Renewal or extension of time of payment.
§58-267. Validation of prior contracts.
§58-269. Executor or administrator - Powers.
§58-283. Oath of appraisers - Their duties.
§58-284. Inventory to contain account of monies - Appraisement unnecessary, when.
§58-285. Executor liable for debt to decedent.
§58-286. Bequest to executor or another debtor of his debt.
§58-288. Refusal to return inventory - Penalty - Revocation of letters.
§58-289. Additional inventory.
§58-293. Complaint on embezzlement - Citation.
§58-295. Account by third person entrusted with property.
§58-311. Property to be delivered to the family - Homestead.
§58-312. Exempt property also allowed family.
§58-313. Homestead exempt from debt or liability.
§58-314. Additional allowance for maintenance during settlement of estate.
§58-315. Allowance a preferred claim.
§58-316. Who entitled to property set apart.
§58-318. When widow has independent income.
§58-331. Notice to creditors to present claims.
§58-331.1. Identification of creditors.
§58-331.2. Mailing of notice to creditors - Personal delivery of notice.
§58-332. Affidavit of mailing or personal delivery.
§58-333. Bar of claims not presented in time - Exceptions.
§58-334. Signing of claim - Contents of claim - Proof of claim.
§58-335. Claims paid when not proved and allowed.
§58-336. Claim by district judge - Proceedings.
§58-337. Allowance and rejection of claims.
§58-338. Claims filed in court after allowance.
§58-339. Suit on rejected claim
§58-340. Claims barred by statute not allowed - Hearing before judge.
§58-341. Claim must be presented before suit.
§58-342. Vacancy in administration not included in limitation.
§58-344. Partial allowance of claim.
§58-345. Judgment only establishes claim.
§58-346. Judgments before death, how collected.
§58-347. Death between verdict and judgment.
§58-348. Reference of claim to third person.
§58-349. Duties of the referee - Proceedings.
§58-350. Costs against representative.
§58-351. Claim by personal representative.
§58-352. Neglect to give notice to creditors.
§58-354. Payment of interest-bearing claims not due.
§58-381. Property not exempt may be sold for debt.
§58-382. Sales - Reports - Confirmation by court.
§58-383. Petition for orders for sale
§58-384. Order of sale - Requirements.
§58-385. Authority to renew or extend mortgage or execute new mortgage.
§58-385.1. Verified petition by guardian - Contents - Limitations.
§58-385.2. Hearing on guardian's petition - Notice.
§58-385.3. Order for guardian to borrow money, execute mortgage, etc. - Additional bond - Approval.
§58-385a. Borrowing money - Mortgage of estate realty - Grant of authority by district court.
§58-385b. Petition - Contents - Time for filing - Limitations.
§58-385c. Hearing on petition - Notice.
§58-386. Notice of hearing on petition.
§58-387. What personal property may be sold without notice.
§58-389. Partnership interests, etc., may be sold.
§58-393. Payment or delivery of property to successor by affidavit.
§58-394. Discharge and release upon payment or delivery of property by affidavit.
§58-412. Application for sale of realty.
§58-413. Order for hearing on the petition.
§58-417. Sale of all rather than part of realty.
§58-419. Order, terms and method of the sale.
§58-420. Petition for sale by third person.
§58-421. Notice of sale at public auction.
§58-422. Place and time of sale.
§58-423. Private sale - Notice of - Bids.
§58-424. Relationship of sale price to appraisement - Exception of sale under authority of will.
§58-425. Security when sale is made on credit.
§58-426. Return of sale - Hearing.
§58-427. Objections to confirmation of return.
§58-428. Confirmation of sale - Resale, when.
§58-429. Conveyance and record - Effect of.
§58-430. Proof of notice before order.
§58-431. Postponement of sale.
§58-432. Notice of postponement.
§58-461. Provisions of the will must be followed.
§58-462. Sale of property under the will - Confirmation.
§58-462.1. Partition of property under the will - Sale
§58-463. When provisions of will are insufficient.
§58-471. Estate liable for debts.
§58-471.1. Liability as dependent on time of granting letters.
§58-472. Contribution from devisees and legatees.
§58-481. Contract for the purchase of lands may be sold.
§58-482. Terms of the sale of land contract.
§58-483. What bond must specify.
§58-484. Assignment of contract.
§58-485. Sale of land subject to mortgage.
§58-486. Holder of mortgage may purchase land.
§58-492. Fraudulent sale - Damages.
§58-493. Limitation of action to recover.
§58-494. Persons under disabilities excepted.
§58-496. Representative cannot be a purchaser.
§58-497. Contract with agent to procure purchaser.
§58-498. Sale on increased bid to purchaser not procured by agent holding contract.
§58-499. Sale on increased bid procured by agent.
§58-501. Representative to make deed under decedent's contract.
§58-502. Application and hearing.
§58-507. Effect of conveyance.
§58-509. Enforcement of decree.
§58-511. Decree may order possession.
§58-512. Transfer of property to governmental entities - Approval by district court.
§58-521. Promise to pay debts of decedent.
§58-522. Representative chargeable with whole estate.
§58-523. Representative shall not profit or lose.
§58-524. Representative not chargeable with uncollected debts.
§58-525. Expenses and compensation.
§58-526. Cannot purchase claims.
§58-527. Fees and commissions.
§58-541. Accounting - Waiver - Sufficiency.
§58-542. Citation upon failure.
§58-543. Petition by third person for accounting.
§58-544. Action upon petition.
§58-545. Contest of the exhibit - Examination.
§58-549. Letters revoked for continued failure.
§58-550. Vouchers or other proof of payment to accompany account.
§58-552. Notice of settlement of account.
§58-553. Date of hearing - Notice of final settlement.
§58-554. Exceptions to the account.
§58-556. Settlement conclusive - Exception.
§58-591. Order of payment of debts.
§58-592. Limit as to mortgage.
§58-594. When certain expenses paid.
§58-595. Order for the payment of debts.
§58-596. Payment of unmatured, contingent, or disputed claims.
§58-597. Liability of representative after order.
§58-598. Rights of creditors not included in order.
§58-611. Payment of legacies and distribution of estate - Extension of time for final settlement.
§58-612. Final account and settlement.
§58-613. Provisions applying to final settlement.
§58-621. Petition for legacy or share of estate.
§58-622. Notice of application - Waiver.
§58-623. Who may resist petition.
§58-624. Allowance of petition - Order.
§58-625. Assessment against legatee or devisee.
§58-632. Rights fixed by decree.
§58-632.1. Validation of decrees entered prior to January 1, 1941.
§58-632.2. Validation of decrees entered prior to January 1, 1951.
§58-632.3. Compliance with notice requirements - Form of final decree - Voidable decree.
§58-634. Petition and notice for decree of distribution.
§58-634.1. Judgment creditor of heir, legatee or devisee - Petition.
§58-635. Taxes paid before decree.
§58-652. Partition of common and undivided estates - Procedure.
§58-661. Settlement of advancements.
§58-671. Agent appointed for nonresident.
§58-672. Bond and allowances of agent.
§58-673. Sale of property unclaimed for a year.
§58-674. Agent to render account.
§58-675. Liability of agent on bond.
§58-676. Claimant of property.
§58-677. Petition by nonresident - Contents - Hearing - Objections.
§58-691. Discharge of representative.
§58-692. Property discovered after final settlement.
§58-692.1. Title to omitted property without subsequent letters.
§58-695. Death of minor - Disposition of moneys.
§58-701. Orders and decrees, requisites of.
§58-702. Publications, how made.
§58-703. Recorded decree is notice to all persons.
§58-704. Citation must contain what.
§58-706. Personal notice, how given.
§58-707. Time of service of citation.
§58-707.1. Persons who may serve - Proof of service.
§58-708. Description of real property in publication.
§58-709. Trials and findings - Judgments, how enforced.
§58-710. Attorney appointed by the court, when.
§58-711. Recording of judgment or decree or notice of judgment or decree relating to real property.
§58-712. Revocation of letters for contumacy.
§58-713. Proof of death of person in military, naval or maritime service - Time for distribution.
§58-714. Joinder of proceedings relating to different estates.
§58-715. Setting out or disclosing facts.
§58-716. Orders fixing date of hearing and notice thereof - Signing.
§58-718.1. Proceedings for appointment of executor or administrator - Notice to creditors.
§58-718.2. Accounting and distribution.
§58-718.3. Other papers, pleadings, and orders.
§58-718.4. Certified copies as evidence.
§58-719.1. Service of notices on Governor and Attorney General.
§58-719.2. Consent by Governor to sale of property of estate.
§58-721. Appealable judgments and orders of district court.
§58-722. Party in default may not appeal.
§58-723. Vacation of judgment.
§58-724. Probate appeals taken as appeals in other cases.
§58-731. Appeal does not stay issue of letters.
§58-732. Appeal does not stay order revoking letters, etc.
§58-741. Reversal for error does not affect lawful acts.
§58-901. District courts may approve deeds.
§58-902. Petition for approval - Requirements.
§58-903. Hearings in district court - Terms of sale.
§58-905. This law exclusive - Repeal of conflicting laws - Court rules.
§58-911. Petition for determination - Hearing - Notice - Order and decree - Filing.
§58-912. Termination of joint tenancy or life tenancy with remainder interest by affidavit.
§58-925. Order of court authorizing lease - Public auction - Notice.
§58-927. Validation of prior leases.
§58-928. Unitizing with adjacent lands.
§58-929.1. Sales and agreements by administrators and executors - Approval.
§58-929.2. Filing of verified applications for approval - Contents.
§58-929.3. Notice of hearing an application - Lands in other counties.
§58-929.4. Hearing - Appearances - Approval.
§58-929.5. Confirmation - Additional bond.
§58-932. Application and hearing on granting of easement - Notice - Approval.
§58-941. Presumption of death - Issuance of letters testamentary or of administration.
§58-942. Petition for letters - Venue.
§58-943. Contents of petition.
§58-944. Date for hearing - Notice - Proof of publication and mailing.
§58-945. Persons entitled to appear.
§58-961. Power to lease or extend lease - Term - Petition - Persons entitled to be heard.
§58-962. Setting for hearing - Notice - Finding - Order.
§58-963. Presentation of proposed lease to court - Review by court - Approval - Bond.
§58-1001. Disposition of property upon insufficient evidence of survivorship.
§58-1003. Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety.
§58-1005. Life or accident policies - Annuity contracts - Distribution of proceeds.
§58-1006. Inapplication in certain cases.
§58-1007. Construction and interpretation.
§58-1063. Supervised power of attorney.
§58-1081. Standards of conduct and liability.
§58-1102. Petition - Filing - Contents.
§58-1105. Final account - Filing - Requisites - Petition.
§58-1106. Final account and petition - Date, time and place - Notice - Hearing.
§58-1203. Applicability of law - Custodianship.
§58-1204. Nomination of custodian.
§58-1205. Irrevocable transfers to custodian.
§58-1206. Personal representatives or trustees - Irrevocable transfers to custodian.
§58-1208. Persons holding property of or owing debt to minor - Irrevocable transfers to custodian.
§58-1209. Acknowledgment of delivery.
§58-1210. Creation of custodial property - Transfers.
§58-1211. Limitations on transfers.
§58-1212. Validity and effect of transfers.
§58-1213. Powers and duties of custodians.
§58-1214. Rights, powers and authority of custodians over property.
§58-1215. Delivery or payment to minor - Expenditures for minor's benefit.
§58-1216. Expenses and compensation of custodian - Bond.
§58-1217. Persons dealing with purported custodian - Responsibilities.
§58-1218. Claims against custodial property - Liability of custodian or minor.
§58-1219. Successor or substitute custodian.
§58-1220. Accounting by custodian.
§58-1221. Minor's death or attainment of majority.
§58-1222. Transfer under other laws after effective date of act.
§58-1223. Transfers under other law prior to effective date.
§58-1224. Application and construction.
§58-1225. Inapplicability of law to certain transfers - Effect.
§58-1252. Transfer-on-death deed - Notice to beneficiary - Acceptance of transfer-on-death deed.
§58-1253. Transfer-on-death, form.
§58-1254. Revocation or change of grantee beneficiary - Effect of will.
§58-1255. Grantee interest subject to encumbrances - Non-consensual lien - Lapse of transfer.
§58-1256. Effect of deed on joint tenancy – “Joint owner” defined.
§58-1257. Record owner considered absolute owner.
§58-1258. Transfer-on-death deed not considered testamentary disposition.
§58-3001. Short title - Uniform Power of Attorney Act.
§58-3004. Power of attorney is durable.
§58-3005. Execution of power of attorney.
§58-3006. Validity of power of attorney.
§58-3007. Meaning and effect of power of attorney.
§58-3008. Nomination of guardian – Relation of agent to court-appointed fiduciary.
§58-3009. When power of attorney effective.
§58-3010. Termination of power of attorney or agent's authority.
§58-3011. Coagents and successor agents.
§58-3012. Reimbursement and compensation of agent.
§58-3013. Acceptance as agent.
§58-3018. Agent's resignation - Notice.
§58-3019. Acceptance of and reliance upon acknowledged power of attorney.
§58-3020. Liability for refusal to accept acknowledged power of attorney.
§58-3021. Principles of law and equity.
§58-3022. Laws applicable to financial institutions and entities.
§58-3023. Remedies under other law.
§58-3024. Authority that requires specific grant – Grant of general authority.
§58-3025. Incorporation of authority.
§58-3026. Construction of authority generally.
§58-3028. Tangible personal property.
§58-3030. Commodities and options.
§58-3031. Banks and other financial institutions.
§58-3032. Operation of entity or business.
§58-3033. Insurance and annuities.
§58-3034. Estates, trusts, and other beneficial interests.
§58-3035. Claims and litigation.
§58-3036. Personal and family maintenance.
§58-3037. Benefits from governmental programs or civil or military service.
§58-3041. Statutory power of attorney form.
§58-3042. Agent's certification.
§58-3043. Uniformity of application.
§58-3044. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.