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§44-9-1. When Person Presumed to Be Dead - In case any person has been or shall be absent...
§44-9-1a. When Person in Military Service Presumed to Be Dead; Administration of Estate; When Spouse May Remarry - Presumptive findings of death of any person engaged in any...
§44-9-1b. When Person in Area Proclaimed to Be in a State of Emergency Presumed Dead - A person last seen at any site within the area...
§44-9-2. Jurisdiction of Estate of Supposed Decedent - Whenever it is believed that facts giving rise to the...
§44-9-3. Application for Probate or Administration, and Publication of Notice Thereof - Whenever letters testamentary or of administration are applied for on...
§44-9-4. Ancillary Letters on Estates of Nonresidents Supposed to Be Dead - Whenever letters testamentary or of administration shall have been granted...
§44-9-5. Evidence on Such Application; Record Thereof - At the hearing in either of the cases provided for...
§44-9-6. Order Declaring Presumption Established; Probate of Will; Letters Testamentary or of Administration; Their Effect; Death Certificate Issued Upon Order - If the commission is satisfied, upon the hearing or from...
§44-9-7. Powers of Clerk of County Commission - The clerk of any county commission during the recess of...
§44-9-8. Personal Representative to Institute Suit to Settle Such Estate - The personal representative of the estate of such supposed decedent...
§44-9-9. Publication in Such Suit - Such personal representative, upon the institution of such suit, shall...
§44-9-10. Procedure When Supposed Decedent Fails to Appear - If such supposed decedent shall not appear, or satisfactory evidence...
§44-9-11. Distribution of Estate; Refunding Bonds - When the commissioner in chancery has rendered his report, and...
§44-9-12. Vacation of Prior Proceedings on Reappearance of Supposed Decedent - The circuit court may at any time, on satisfactory proof...
§44-9-13. Final Accounting of Personal Representative; Effect of His Acts; Title of Purchasers and Distributees - The circuit court shall, when the prior proceedings have been...
§44-9-14. Substitution of Supposed Decedent in Pending Actions; Opening Judgments; Effect of Judgment After Substitution - After revocation of the letters and vacation of the order...
§44-9-15. When Laws Relating to Wills and Estates Generally to Govern - As to matters not specially provided for in this article,...
§44-9-16. Costs, by Whom Payable - The costs attending the issuance of letters testamentary or of...