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Title 84. Wills and Succession 
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Chapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 1. Classification of Legacies

§ 2. All Property Chargeable with Payment of Debts in Intestacy

§ 3. Order of Property Resorted to for Payment of Debts

§ 4. Order of Property Resorted to for Payment of Legacies

§ 5. Order of Legacies

§ 6. Abatement as to Classes

§ 7. Obtaining Title and Possession-Personal Representative May Sell Devised Property

§ 8. Claim Under Heir Against Devisee-Probate Proceedings

§ 9. Specific Legacies for Life-Procedure-Inventory of Property

§ 10. Bequest of Income or Income-Time of Accrual Begins at Death

§ 11. Legacy Satisfied Before Death

§ 12. When Legacies are Due - Annuities

§ 13. Time When Legacies Bear Interest

§ 14. Testator's Intent Controls

§ 15. Executor of Estate and the Intent of the Testator

§ 16. Executor Not Permitted to Appoint Executor

§ 17. Power as Executor Begins Upon Qualification - Payment of Funeral Charges - Preservation of the Estate

§ 18. Executor of an Executor - Power

§ 19. Term Will Includes Codicils

§ 20. Governing Law as to Interpretation of the Will - Real Property and Personal Property

§ 21. Beneficiary Liability as to Obligations of the Testator

§ 22. Disclaimer of Interests Passing by Will, Intestate Succession, Etc. - Definitions

§ 23. Right to File Disclaimer - Minor Incompetent or Deceased Beneficiaries

§ 24. Time for Filing Disclaimer

§ 25. Place of Filing Disclaimer - Delivery of Copies - Interest in Real Estate

§ 26. Disposition of Interest Disclaimed

§ 27. Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act Not Abrogated - Bar on Right to Disclaim in Certain Cases

§ 28. Spendthrift Provisions - Binding Effect of Disclaimer - Spouse of Disclaimant

§ 29. Other Rights Not Abridged

§ 30. Interest Not Fixed or Finally Ascertained - Right to Disclaim

§ 31. Disclaimer of Interest in Trust

Chapter 2 - Execution and Revocation of Wills

Capacity and Power to Make Will

§ 41. Persons Who May Make a Will - Persons Subject to Guardianship or Conservatorship

§ 42. Married Women's Rights as to Wills

§ 43. Procurement of Will or Revocation by Duress, Menace, Fraud or Undue Influence

§ 44. Property Acquired by Joint Industry

§ 45. Persons Capable by Law May Take - Corporations Excepted

§ 46. Requisites of Nuncupative Wills

Execution and Attestation

§ 51. Nuncupative Will - Writing and Attestation Not Required

§ 52. Mutual Wills - Revocation

§ 53. Conditional Wills - Probate

§ 54. Holographic Wills

§ 55. Formal Requisites in Execution - Self-proved Wills

§ 56. Witness to Write Name and Place of Residence-Subscription of Testator's Name by Direction

§ 57. Codicil - Effect of

Governing Law

§ 71. Execution According to Law of Place Where Made Validates Will or Revocation

§ 72. Will or Revocation Executed According to Law

§ 73. Change of Domicile

Deposit

§ 81. Wills Deposited with Judge of the District Court - Procedure

§ 82. Deposited Wills - Delivery

§ 83. Will Deposited with Judge - Duties Upon Death of Testator

Lost or Destroyed Will

§ 91. Lost or Destroyed Wills - Proof

Revocation

§ 101. Revocation or Alteration of Wills

§ 102. Proof of Destruction of a Will

§ 103. Revocation by Obliteration on Face of the Will - Alteration to Effect New Disposition

§ 104. Duplicate Wills - Revocation

§ 105. Revocation of Prior Will by Subsequent

§ 106. Revocation of Subsequent Will - Revival

§ 109. Sale of Property Transferred by Will - Remedies

§ 110. Charge or Incumberance Does Not Revoke Will - Bequests Pass Subject to Charge

§ 111. Partial Disposition is Not a Revocation - Will Passes Property

§ 112. Effect of Alteration when Intent to Revoke Expressed - Wholly Inconsistent Dispositions

§ 113. Revocation of Will Revokes Codicils

§ 114. Divorce or Annulment as Revoking Will

Omission to Provide for Child

§ 131. Determining Share for Afterborn Children Unprovided for in Will

§ 132. Determining Share for Child Unintentionally Omitted from Will

§ 133. Determination of Share Assigned to Afterborn or Omitted Child

§ 134. Advancements and Children Unprovided for in Will

Miscellaneous

§ 141. Devise of Land Conveys All the Estate - Exception

§ 142. Death of Devisee or Legatee Before Testator

§ 143. Bequest to Subscribing Witness Void

§ 144. Share of Witnesses if Entitled to Share Without the Will

§ 145. Incompetency of Witnesses After Attestation

§ 146. Property Acquired After Making of the Will - Passing of Real Estate

Chapter 3 - Interpretation of Wills

§ 151. Will Construed According to Testator's Intent

§ 152. Ascertaining the Testator's Intent

§ 153. Interpretation of a Will Governed by Rules of this Article

§ 154. Several Testamentary Instruments Construed Together

§ 155. Parts of the Will Construed in Relation to Each Other - Irreconcilable Parts of the Will

§ 156. Distinct Devise Not Affected by Inference from Other Parts of the Will

§ 157. Ambiguities in the Will

§ 158. Words Construed in Ordinary and Grammatical Sense

§ 159. Interpretation to Effect Every Expression of Will

§ 160. Preference to Interpret Will to Prevent Total Intestacy

§ 161. Technical Words Taken in Technical Sense

§ 162. Technical Words Not Necessary

§ 163. Heirs or Other Words of Inheritance Not Required

§ 164. Power to Devise

§ 165. Devise of All the Testator's Real or Personal Property

§ 166. Residual Estate of Real Property

§ 167. Residual Estate of Personal Property

§ 168. Interpretation and Effect of Certain Terms as Words of Donation, Not Limitation-Heirs, Relations, Issue, etc.

§ 169. Words of Donation, Not Limitation

§ 170. Words in a Will Referring to Death or Survivorship

§ 171. Class Gifts Includes All Meeting Description

§ 172. Conversion of Real Property into Money - Proceeds

§ 173. Class Gifts to Children and Children Born After Testator's Death

§ 174. Correction of Errors in the Will

§ 175. Vesting of Dispositions - Presumption

§ 176. Vesting of Testamentary Dispositions - Divestment

§ 177. Death of Devisee During Lifetime of the Testator

§ 178. Death of Devisee Before Testator's Death Not to Affect Remaindermen

§ 179. Conditional Disposition

§ 180. Definition of Condition Precedent

§ 181. Condition Precedent Must be Fulfilled in Order to Vest - Exception

§ 182. Condition Precedent - Substantial Compliance

§ 183. Definition of Condition Subsequent

§ 184. Devise to More than One - Owners in Common

§ 185. Advancements Not Taken as Ademptions of General Legacies

§ 186. Unlimited Marital Deduction - Interpretation of Will

Chapter 4 - Succession

In General

§ 211. Definition of Succession

§ 212. Property Passing by Intestacy Subject to Court Control and Possession of Administrator

§ 213. Intestacy - Descent and Distribution

§ 214. Abolishment of Dower and Courtesy

§ 215. Inheritance by and from Illegitimate Child

§ 216. Illegitimate Child - Succession at Intestacy

§ 217. Degrees of Kindred - How Established - Degree

§ 218. Direct or Lineal Consanguinity - Collateral Consanguinity

§ 219. Direct Line - Descending - Ascending

§ 220. Degrees in the Direct Line

§ 221. Determining Degrees of Collateral Heirs

§ 222. Kindred of the Half-blood - Inheritance

§ 223. Advancements

§ 224. Advancements - Excess Not Refunded - Entitlement to Full Share if Deficient

§ 225. Definition of Advancements

§ 226. Value of Advancements

§ 227. Advancements Charged Against Those Taking by Representation

§ 228. Representation - Posthumous Children - Definitions

§ 229. Aliens Take in All Cases

§ 230. Heirs Liable for Decedent's Obligations

§ 231. Person Causing Death Not to Inherit Nor Benefit by Insurance of Decedent

§ 232. Automobile Property of Surviving Spouse

Procedure to Determine Succession or Heirship

§ 251. Proceedings Authorized

§ 252. Petition

§ 253. Hearing, Process and Service

§ 254. Trial and Judgment - Re-hearings

§ 255. Appeals

§ 256. Remedy Cumulative

§ 257. Actions to Determine Persons Entitled to Real Property - Description of Parties - Publication of Notice

§ 258. Judgment

§ 259. Conclusiveness of Judgment

§ 260. Service by Publication - Mailing Notice to Persons Named in Petition

§ 261. Proof of Service

Chapter 5 - Escheat

§ 271. Escheat

§ 271.1. Abandoned Mineral Interests - Sale

§ 273. Attorney General or District Attorney to File Petition in Escheat

§ 274. Summons - Publication

§ 275. Parties - Trial - Costs Upon Judgment

§ 276. Disposition of Property - Sale

§ 277. Appeals

Chapter 6 - Uniform Testamentary Additions to Trusts Act

§ 301. Devise or Bequests to Trustee - Not Invalid Because Trust Amendable or Revocable

§ 302. Effect of Act

§ 303. Act Construed

§ 304. Short Title

§ 305. Life Insurance Policies - Trustee Named By Will as Beneficiary

§ 306. Proceeds of Insurance and Debts and Taxes

§ 307. Commingling of Proceeds

§ 308. Prior Beneficiary Designations Not Affected

Chapter 7 - Uniform International Wills Act

§ 350. Short Title

§ 351. Definitions

§ 852. Validity of International Wills - Inapplicability to Wills Made by Two or More Persons in One Instrument

§ 853. Requirement of a Writing - Execution and Attestation of Will - Witnesses - Signature

§ 854. Location of Signatures - Page Numbering - Date - Testator's Declaration Concerning Safekeeping of Will

§ 855. Certificate Form

§ 856. Effect of Certificate on Validity of Instrument

§ 857. Revocation of International Will

§ 858. Derivation of Act - Uniformity in Interpretation

§ 859. Authorized Persons