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§84-1. Legacies classed. - Legacies are distinguished and designated, according to their nature, as...
§84-2. All property of interstate subject to debts. - When a person dies intestate, all his property, real and...
§84-3. Order of resort to property for payment of debts, administration expenses and allowances. - The property of a testator, except as otherwise especially provided...
§84-4. Order of resort to property for payment of legacies. - The property of a testator, except as otherwise specially provided...
§84-5. Preferred legacies. - Legacies to husband, widow or kindred of any class, are...
§84-6. Abatement takes effect how. - Abatement takes place in any class only as between legacies...
§84-7. Title and possession - Representative may sell property devised. - In a specific devise or legacy, the title passes by...
§84-8. Claim under heir against devisee - Probate proceedings. - The rights of a purchaser or encumbrancer of real property...
§84-9. Succession to limited legacies - Inventory of property. - Where specific legacies are for life only, the first legatees...
§84-10. Bequest of interest or income begins at death. - In case of a bequest of the interest or income...
§84-11. Satisfaction of legacy before death. - A legacy, or a gift in contemplation, fear or peril...
§84-12. Legacies due, when - Annuities. - Legacies are due and deliverable at the expiration of one...
§84-13. Interest on legacies. - Legacies bear interest from the time when they are due...
§84-14. Intention of testator controls. - The four preceding sections are in all cases to be...
§84-15. Testator's intention as to executor. - Where it appears by the terms of a will that...
§84-16. Executor may not appoint executor. - An authority to an executor to appoint an executor, is...
§84-17. Executor's power begins, when - Payment of funeral charges, etc. - No person has any power, as an executor, until he...
§84-18. Power of executor of executor. - No executor of an executor, as such, has any power...
§84-19. Will includes codicils. - The term "will," as used in this chapter, includes all...
§84-20. Law governing validity and interpretation of wills. - Except as otherwise provided, the validity and interpretation of wills...
§84-21. Liability of beneficiaries. - Those to whom property is given by will are liable...
§84-22. Disclaimer of interests passing by will, intestate succession, etc. - Definitions - As used in this act, unless otherwise clearly required by...
§84-23. Right to file disclaimer - Minor incompetent or deceased beneficiaries. - A beneficiary may disclaim any interest in whole or in...
§84-24. Time for filing disclaimer - Such disclaimer shall be filed at any time after the...
§84-25. Place of filing disclaimer - Delivery of copies - Interest in real estate. - Such disclaimer shall be effective upon being filed in the...
§84-26. Disposition of interest disclaimed. - Unless the person by whom the interest was created or...
§84-27. Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act not abrogated - Bar on right to disclaim in certain cases. - Nothing included in this act shall be deemed to amend,...
§84-28. Spendthrift provisions - Binding effect of disclaimer - Spouse of disclaimant. - The right to disclaim granted by this act shall exist...
§84-29. Other rights not abridged. - This act shall not abridge the right of any person,...
§84-30. Interest not fixed or finally ascertained - Right to disclaim. - Any interest which exists on the effective date of this...
§84-31. Disclaimer of interest in trust - Conditions. - An interest in trust may be disclaimed by written instrument...
§84-41. Persons who may make a will - Persons subject to guardianship or conservatorship. - A. Every person over the age of eighteen (18) years...
§84-42. Right of married woman. - A married woman may dispose of all her separate estate...
§84-43. Duress, menace, fraud, or undue influence - Revocation. - A will or part of a will procured to be...
§84-44. Property which may be disposed of - Election by surviving spouse - Homestead. - A. Every estate in property may be disposed of by...
§84-45. Persons who may take under will - Exception as to corporation. - A testamentary disposition may be made to any person capable...
§84-46. Nuncupative wills - Requisites. - To make a nuncupative will valid, and to entitle it...
§84-51. Nuncupative will need not be in writing. - A nuncupative will is not required to be in writing,...
§84-52. Mutual will - Revocation. - A conjoint or mutual will is valid, but it may...
§84-53. Probate of conditional will. - A will, the validity of which is made by its...
§84-54. Holographic wills - Requisites. - A holographic will is one that is entirely written, dated...
§84-55. Formal requisites in execution - Self-proved wills. - Every will, other than a nuncupative will, must be in...
§84-56. Method of witnessing a will. - A witness to a written will must write, with his...
§84-57. Codicil, effect of. - The execution of a codicil referring to a previous will...
§84-71. Law of place governs execution or revocation. - A will, or a revocation thereof, made out of this...
§84-72. Law must be followed in execution or revocation. - No will or revocation is valid unless executed either according...
§84-73. Change of domicile does not affect will. - Whenever a will or a revocation thereof is duly executed...
§84-81. Wills deposited with judge of the district court. - Every judge of the district court must deposit in his...
§84-82. Delivery of deposited will. - A will deposited under the provisions of the last section...
§84-83. Duty of judge having will on deposit after testator's death. - The judge of the district court with whom a will...
§84-91. Proof of lost or destroyed will - A lost or destroyed will of real or personal property,...
§84-101. Revocation of wills. - Except in the cases in this article mentioned no written...
§84-102. Proof of destruction. - When a will is canceled or destroyed by any other...
§84-103. Effect of alteration or partial erasure - A revocation by obliteration on the face of the will...
§84-104. Revocation of duplicate will. - The revocation of a will, executed in duplicate, may be...
§84-105. Revocation by subsequent will. - A prior will is not revoked by a subsequent will,...
§84-106. Revocation of subsequent will. - If, after making a will, the testator duly makes and...
§84-109. Effect of sale of devised property. - An agreement made by a testator, for the sale or...
§84-110. Encumbrance not a revocation. - A charge or encumbrance upon any estate, for the purpose...
§84-111. Partial disposal not a revocation. - A conveyance, settlement, or other act of a testator, by...
§84-112. When intent to revoke expressed. - If the instrument by which an alteration is made in...
§84-113. Codicils revoked with will. - The revocation of a will revokes all its codicils. R.L....
§84-114. Divorce or annulment as revoking will. - A. If, after making a will, the testator is divorced,...
§84-131. After-born children not provided for in will. - Whenever a testator has a child born after the making...
§84-132. Provision for children unintentionally omitted. - When any testator omits to provide in his will for...
§84-133. How provision made as to child born after or omitted from will. - When any share of the estate of a testator is...
§84-134. Advancements cover rights. - If such children, or their descendants, so unprovided for, had...
§84-141. Devise of land gives all estator's estate. - Every devise of land in any will conveys all the...
§84-142. Death of devisee or legatee before testator - Rights of descendants. - When any estate is devised or bequeathed to any child...
§84-143. Gift to witness void - Exception. - All beneficial devises, legacies or gifts whatever, made or given...
§84-144. Witness entitled without will. - If a witness to whom any beneficial devise, legacy or...
§84-145. Subsequent incompetency of witnesses immaterial. - If the subscribing witnesses to a will are competent at...
§84-146. Property acquired after will. - Any estate, right or interest in lands acquired by the...
§84-151. Intention of testator governs. - A will is to be construed according to the intention...
§84-152. Ascertaining intention. - In case of uncertainty, arising upon the face of a...
§84-153. Rules of this article govern interpretation. - In interpreting a will, subject to the laws of this...
§84-154. Several instruments construed as one. - Several testamentary instruments, executed by the same testator, are to...
§84-155. Irreconcilable parts. - All the parts of a will are to be construed...
§84-156. Plain devise not affected by other parts of will. - A clear and distinct devise or bequest cannot be affected...
§84-157. Ambiguities. - Where the meaning of any part of a will is...
§84-158. Words taken in ordinary sense. - The words of a will are to be taken in...
§84-159. Words to be given effect if possible. - The words of a will are to receive an interpretation...
§84-160. Interpretation against total intestacy. - Of two modes of interpreting a will, that is to...
§84-161. Technical words. - Technical words in a will are to be taken in...
§84-162. Technical expression not required. - Technical words are not necessary to give effect to any...
§84-163. Words of inheritance not necessary. - The term "heirs," or other words of inheritance, are not...
§84-164. Execution of power to devise. - Real or personal property embraced in a power to devise...
§84-165. General disposition includes what. - A devise or bequest of all the testator's real or...
§84-166. Devise of residue of real estate. - A devise of the residue of the testator's real property...
§84-167. Devise of residue of personalty. - A bequest of the residue of the testator's personal property...
§84-168. Effect of certain terms as "heirs," "relations," etc. - A testamentary disposition to "heirs," "relations," "nearest relations," "representatives," "legal...
§84-169. When terms "heirs," "relations," etc. construed as words of donation. - The terms mentioned in the last section are used as...
§84-170. Words referring to survivorship. - Words in a will referring to death or survivorship, simply,...
§84-171. Disposition to class includes all. - A testamentary disposition to a class includes every person answering...
§84-172. Conversion of realty into money. - When a will directs the conversion of real property into...
§84-173. Unborn child included in class, when. - A child conceived before, but not born until after a...
§84-174. Errors corrected, how. - If, when applying a will, it is found that there...
§84-175. Rights presumed to vest on testator's death. - Testamentary dispositions, including devises and bequests to a person on...
§84-176. Rights divested, when. - A testamentary disposition, when vested, cannot be divested unless upon...
§84-177. Death of devisee or legatee causes failure. - If a devisee or legatee dies during the lifetime of...
§84-178. Remaindermen not affected by death of devisee or legatee. - The death of a devisee or legatee of a limited...
§84-179. Conditional disposition defined. - A conditional disposition is one which depends upon the occurrence...
§84-180. Condition precedent defined. - A condition precedent in a will is one which is...
§84-181. Condition precedent must be fulfilled - Exception. - Where a testamentary disposition is made upon a condition precedent,...
§84-182. Substantial compliance as performance of condition precedent. - A condition precedent in a will is to be deemed...
§84-183. Condition subsequent defined. - A condition subsequent is where an estate or interest is...
§84-184. Owners in common created, when. - A devise or legacy given to more than one person...
§84-185. Gifts do not reduce legacies. - Advancements or gifts are not to be taken as ademptions...
§84-186. Unlimited marital deduction - Interpretation of will. - Any will of a decedent dying after December 31, 1981,...
§84-211. Succession defined. - Succession is the coming in of another to take the...
§84-212. Property of intestate passes to heirs subject to control of court and possession of administrator. - The property, both real and personal, of one who dies...
§84-213. Descent and distribution. - A. Prior to July 1, 1985, if any person having...
§84-214. Dower and courtesy abolished. - Dower and courtesy are abolished. R.L. 1910, Sec. 8419. R.L.1910,...
§84-215. Inheritance by and from illegitimate child. - For inheritance purposes, a child born out of wedlock stands...
§84-216. Inheritance from illegitimate child. - If an illegitimate child, who has not been acknowledged or...
§84-217. Degrees of kindred. - The degree of kindred is established by the number of...
§84-218. Lineal and collateral. - The series of degrees from the line; the series of...
§84-219. Ascending and descending lines. - The direct line is divided into a direct line descending...
§84-220. Degrees in direct line. - In the direct line there are as many degrees as...
§84-221. Collateral degrees, how reckoned. - In the collateral line the degrees are counted by generations,...
§84-222. Kindred of the half-blood. - Kindred of the half-blood inherit equally with those of the...
§84-223. Advancements. - Any estate, real or personal, given by the decedent in...
§84-224. Excess not refunded. - If the amount of such advancement exceeds the share of...
§84-225. Advancements defined. - All gifts and grants are made as advancements, if expressed...
§84-226. Expressed value of advancement governs. - If the value of the estate so advanced is expressed...
§84-227. Representation in advancements. - If any child or other lineal descendant receiving advancement, dies...
§84-228. Representation defined - Posthumous children. - Inheritance or succession by right of representation takes place when...
§84-229. Aliens may take. - Aliens may take in all cases, by succession, as well...
§84-230. Liabilities of heirs. - Those who succeed to the property of a decedent are...
§84-231. Offenses precluding a person from inheriting or benefiting by insurance of victim. - No person who is convicted of murder in the first...
§84-232. Automobiles - Surviving spouse's rights. - Whenever any person dies intestate leaving a surviving spouse, and...
§84-251. Proceedings authorized - Jurisdiction - Final determination - Appeal. - The District Court having jurisdiction to settle the estate of...
§84-252. Petition - Contents. - In all proceedings under this act to determine the question...
§84-253. Hearing, process and service. - Upon the filing of such petition the judge of the...
§84-254. Trial and judgment - Rehearings. - Upon the date set for the hearing of said petition...
§84-255. Appeals. - In all cases appealed from any judgment rendered under the...
§84-256. Remedies cumulative. - The method herein provided for the determination of the heirs...
§84-257. Actions to determine persons entitled to real property - Description of parties - Publication of notice. - Where any person dies intestate possessed of real property in...
§84-258. Judgment. - Upon the trial of hearing, and accordingly as the proof...
§84-259. Conclusiveness of judgment. - Such decree or judgment shall be conclusive as to the...
§84-260. Service by publication - Mailing notice to persons named in petition. - When such petition is filed, the party may proceed to...
§84-261. Proof of service. - Service by publication in such cases shall be deemed complete...
§84-271. Conditions of escheat. - Subject to the provisions of Sections 271.1 through 277 of...
§84-271.1. Abandoned mineral interests. - If the proceeds or other intangible property interest from any...
§84-273. Petition in escheat by Attorney General or district attorney. - Where the Attorney General of this state or the district...
§84-274. Summons - Notification to Attorney General. - Upon the filing of the petition in an action authorized...
§84-275. Parties - Trial and judgment - Costs. - All persons named in such petition as tenants or persons...
§84-276. Sale of property. - In case a judgment is rendered in favor of the...
§84-277. Appeals. - Any person who shall have appeared in any such proceedings...
§84-301. Devises or bequests by will to trustee of trust established by written instrument independently of will - Permissible terms and conditions. - A. Unless otherwise provided by subsection B of this section,...
§84-303. Construction. - This act shall be so construed as to effectuate its...
§84-304. Citation. - This act may be cited as the Uniform Testamentary Additions...
§84-305. Life insurance policies - Trustee named by will as beneficiary. - A policy of life insurance may designate as beneficiary a...
§84-306. Liability for debts and taxes. - The proceeds of the insurance as received by the trustee...
§84-307. Commingling of proceeds. - Such insurance proceeds so held in trust may be commingled...
§84-308. Prior beneficiary designations not affected. - Nothing in this act shall affect the validity of any...
§84-350. Short title. - This act shall be known and may be cited as...
§84-351. Definitions. - As used in the Uniform International Wills Act: 1. “International...
§84-852. Validity of a will. - A. A will is valid as regards form, irrespective particularly...
§84-853. Requirements of a will. - A. The will must be made in writing. It need...
§84-854. Signature, date, and declaration. - A. The signatures must be placed at the end of...
§84-855. Signature establishing execution of valid international will. - The authorized person shall attach to the will a certificate...
§84-856. Certificate - Formal validity. - In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the certificate...
§84-857. International will - Rules of revocation of wills. - An international will is subject to the ordinary rules of...
§84-858. Interpretation of Uniform International Wills Act. - The Uniform International Wills Act derives from Annex to Convention...
§84-859. Authorized persons. - Individuals who have been admitted to practice law before the...