Title 30, Administration of Estates

The administrator shall be trustee for the management of the property so set apart as the allowance for the children, until the appointment of a guardian, to whom the administrator shall pay it over, and take receipt.

The homestead in lands of a decedent, inuring to the benefit of a surviving spouse, minor child, or a child who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and has a developmental disability or intellectual disability, is assigned and set apart in the manner provided in this part.

The probate court, at any of its sessions, shall have jurisdiction concurrent with the circuit and chancery courts, of applications for laying off of homestead.

(a) When an application for homestead is filed pursuant to this part, it shall be served upon the personal representative, if one has been appointed, and to the heirs or devisees and distributees or legatees who reside in this state. If there is a minor interested, the guardian s…

(a) The surviving spouse may make application to any one of the courts named in § 30-2-202 in the county where the husband or wife, as the case may be, last resided before death, for the appointment of two (2) freeholders or householders of the county, unconnected by affinity or …

If the surveyor is connected with any of the parties interested, either by affinity or consanguinity, the court shall appoint some competent surveyor, other than the surveyor's deputy, in the surveyor's place.

The proceedings upon applications for homestead are summary, unless the applicant is the personal representative, and shall be heard and determined at the first term after notice.

The clerk of the court shall, within forty (40) days after the adjournment of the court, deliver to the surveyor a copy of the order, and thereupon the surveyor shall notify the two (2) commissioners of the time and place, to be designated by the surveyor, of laying off the homes…

Should any of the lands to which the applicant may be entitled as homestead lie out of the county where the application is made, the commissioners, if so directed in the order of court, shall view and take them into estimate.

If real estate is so situated that homestead cannot be set apart, as provided in this part, then the realty must be sold and thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) of the proceeds invested in real estate, under the direction of the court having jurisdiction to be held as homestea…

The commissioners shall, in their report, exhibit a plat of the homestead, and also plainly set forth the same by metes and bounds where the homestead can be so assigned, and if the report is confirmed by the court, the clerk shall enter it in full with the plat on the records of…

The costs of the application shall be paid by the applicant unless the court otherwise adjudge.

As used in this part, “developmental disability” and “intellectual disability” have the same meaning as defined in § 52-1-101.

(a) The personal representative, within sixty (60) days after entering on the administration of a testate or intestate estate, shall make a complete and accurate inventory of the probate estate of the deceased, and return the inventory to the clerk of the court exercising probate…

The clerk shall present the inventory to the court, and, if it appears to be regular, the court shall order it to be recorded in the book of inventories.

Unless otherwise directed by the will and unless the specific personal property is the subject of a bequest, the personal representative of a testate or intestate estate may, in the personal representative's discretion, sell the personal property of the decedent at public or priv…

(a) Where a tenant for life of real estate creates a lease out of the tenant's estate for one (1) or more years, and dies before the expiration of the lease, and before the term fixed for the payment of the rent, the rent may be apportioned, and the executor or administrator of t…

Every debtor's property, except such as may be specially exempt by law, is assets for the satisfaction of all the debtor's just debts.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (e), it is the duty of the clerk of the court in which an estate is being administered, within thirty (30) days after the issuance of letters testamentary or of administration, to give, in the name of the personal representative of the estate,…

(a) (1) All claims against the estate arising from a debt of the decedent shall be barred unless filed within the period prescribed in the notice published or posted in accordance with § 30-2-306(b).(2) Before the date that is twelve (12) months from the decedent's date of death,…

Triplicate copies of the first pleading filed in original actions against a personal representative shall be filed with the clerk of the court where the administration originated, to be noted by the clerk in the record of claims as are other claims filed.

The filing of claims within the time and in the manner provided in §§ 30-2-307 and 30-2-308 shall operate to arrest any statute of limitations applicable to the claims.

(a) All claims and demands not filed with the probate court clerk, as required by §§ 30-2-306 — 30-2-309, or, if later, in which suit has not been brought or revived before the end of twelve (12) months from the date of death of the decedent, shall be forever barred. (b) Notwiths…

Notwithstanding §§ 30-2-307 — 30-2-310, the personal representative, if in the personal representative's discretion it is deemed proper, may waive the requirement for the filing of and may pay any claim not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) principal amount. If the act of t…

Each claim filed with the clerk shall be entered by the clerk in a well bound book, in which the clerk shall set forth the title of the estate, the name and address of the creditor as reflected by the claim filed, the nature and amount of the claim and the date of filing, which b…

(a) The clerk of the court, within five (5) days after the filing of a claim and its entry in the claim book as provided in § 30-2-312, shall give written notice to the personal representative and the attorney of record of the filing of the claim, by mailing each a true and corre…

(a) (1) Until thirty (30) days after the expiration of four (4) months from the date of the notice to creditors given as provided in § 30-2-306(b), the personal representative, or any party interested in the estate either as creditor, distributee, heir or otherwise, may except to…

(a) (1) The clerk shall, within ten (10) days after the filing of exceptions to a claim, in which matter no jury is demanded, as herein provided, fix a date for the hearing thereof by the court, and mail notice of the hearing to the personal representative, to the claimant whose …

After the lapse of ninety (90) days from and after the expiration of the time for entering exceptions to claims filed against the estate, the court may, upon the written application of any creditor having a matured claim on which no independent suit is pending, to whose duly file…

(a) All claims or demands against the estate of any deceased person shall be divided into the following classifications, which shall have priority in the order shown:(1) First: Costs of administration, including, but not limited to, premiums on the fiduciary bonds and reasonable …

(a) At any time prior to the expiration of the period fixed for the payment of claims, the personal representative may pay the preferred claims as provided in § 30-2-317 for which the estate may be liable, and upon order of court any debt of the decedent for which security may ha…

All uncontested claims and all contested claims that have been finally adjudged and allowed shall be paid by the personal representative as soon as practicable (not in any event to exceed ninety (90) days) after the expiration of the date on which the personal representative coul…

All actions pending against any person at the time of that person's death, that by law may survive against the personal representative, shall be considered demands legally filed against the estate at the time of the filing with the clerk of the court in which the estate is being …

Wherever in this title any period of time is required to be computed from the date of the notice to creditors, the computation shall be made from the date of the first publication of the notice, in case of published notices, or from the date of the posting of the notice, in case …

(a) (1) The probate court of the county of the decedent's residence at the time of decease, when not contrary to the decedent's will, if any, may authorize the personal representative to continue the business of the decedent upon such conditions as it may impose, for an original …

Unless contrary to the decedent's will, the personal representative of the estate is authorized, but not required, to advance or to pay as an expense of administration for a period of up to four (4) months after the decedent's death the reasonable costs of routine upkeep of any r…

(a) After notice has been sent to the last known address of the personal representative of the estate, the attorney for the estate and any beneficiaries of the estate, the court may enter an order, without liability to the clerk of the county of administration, dismissing, withou…

The probate court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the chancery and circuit courts to sell real estate of decedents and for distribution or partition, and the mode of procedure in such a case in the probate court shall conform in every respect to the rules and regulations …

(a) If the personal property available appears to be insufficient to pay debts and expenses, the personal representative, or a creditor whose claim is duly filed, may, at any time, file a petition in the court in which the estate is being administered, for the sale of the deceden…

(a) Where an executor not authorized by will to sell and convey real estate, or an administrator, has exhausted the personal estate of the deceased in the payment of the deceased's debts, leaving just debts or demands against the deceased unpaid, or paid by the representative out…

Before making a decree for the sale of lands, it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the court that the personal estate has been exhausted in the payment of bona fide debts, and that the debts or demands for which the sale is sought are justly due and owing either to c…

Suits prosecuted under §§ 30-2-403 and 30-2-404 shall be conducted as other suits in equity.

(a) Where administration is granted to any person on account of the person being a creditor of the intestate, and there are not personal assets sufficient to satisfy the debt or demand of that administrator, the person may proceed against the heirs or devisees of the deceased for…

If a decree is made against the heir or heirs, or any of them, execution shall be issued against the real estate of the deceased debtor in the possession of the heir or heirs against whom the decree is given.

(a) If an heir or devisee aliens the land before an action is brought or process sued out, the heir or devisee shall be answerable to any creditor of the decedent for the ancestor's debts to the value of the lands aliened. (b) Within six (6) months from the death of any person, a…

(a) Where no person will administer on the estate of the deceased, any person who has commenced a suit against the deceased in the lifetime of the deceased may issue a scire facias against the deceased's heirs or devisees, for whom, in case they are minors, the court shall appoin…