Title 84. WILLS AND SUCCESSION  


§ 84-1. Legacies classed.
§ 84-2. All property of interstate subject to debts.
§ 84-3. Order of resort to property for payment of debts, administration expenses and allowances.
§ 84-4. Order of resort to property for payment of legacies.
§ 84-5. Preferred legacies.
§ 84-6. Abatement takes effect how.
§ 84-7. Title and possession - Representative may sell property devised.
§ 84-8. Claim under heir against devisee - Probate proceedings.
§ 84-9. Succession to limited legacies - Inventory of property.
§ 84-10. Bequest of interest or income begins at death.
§ 84-11. Satisfaction of legacy before death.
§ 84-12. Legacies due, when - Annuities.
§ 84-13. Interest on legacies.
§ 84-14. Intention of testator controls.
§ 84-15. Testator's intention as to executor.
§ 84-16. Executor may not appoint executor.
§ 84-17. Executor's power begins, when - Payment of funeral charges, etc.
§ 84-18. Power of executor of executor.
§ 84-19. Will includes codicils.
§ 84-20. Law governing validity and interpretation of wills.
§ 84-21. Liability of beneficiaries.
§ 84-22. Disclaimer of interests passing by will, intestate succession, etc. - Definitions
§ 84-23. Right to file disclaimer - Minor incompetent or deceased beneficiaries.
§ 84-24. Time for filing disclaimer
§ 84-25. Place of filing disclaimer - Delivery of copies - Interest in real estate.
§ 84-26. Disposition of interest disclaimed.
§ 84-27. Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act not abrogated - Bar on right to disclaim in certain cases.
§ 84-28. Spendthrift provisions - Binding effect of disclaimer - Spouse of disclaimant.
§ 84-29. Other rights not abridged.
§ 84-30. Interest not fixed or finally ascertained - Right to disclaim.
§ 84-31. Disclaimer of interest in trust - Conditions.
§ 84-41. Persons who may make a will - Persons subject to guardianship or conservatorship.
§ 84-42. Right of married woman.
§ 84-43. Duress, menace, fraud, or undue influence - Revocation.
§ 84-44. Property which may be disposed of - Election by surviving spouse - Homestead.
§ 84-45. Persons who may take under will - Exception as to corporation.
§ 84-46. Nuncupative wills - Requisites.
§ 84-51. Nuncupative will need not be in writing.
§ 84-52. Mutual will - Revocation
§ 84-53. Probate of conditional will.
§ 84-54. Holographic wills - Requisites.
§ 84-55. Formal requisites in execution - Self-proved wills.
§ 84-56. Method of witnessing a will.
§ 84-57. Codicil, effect of.
§ 84-71. Law of place governs execution or revocation.
§ 84-72. Law must be followed in execution or revocation.
§ 84-73. Change of domicile does not affect will.
§ 84-81. Wills deposited with judge of the district court.
§ 84-82. Delivery of deposited will.
§ 84-83. Duty of judge having will on deposit after testator's death.
§ 84-91. Proof of lost or destroyed will
§ 84-101. Revocation of wills.
§ 84-102. Proof of destruction.
§ 84-103. Effect of alteration or partial erasure
§ 84-104. Revocation of duplicate will.
§ 84-105. Revocation by subsequent will.
§ 84-106. Revocation of subsequent will.
§ 84-109. Effect of sale of devised property.
§ 84-110. Encumbrance not a revocation.
§ 84-111. Partial disposal not a revocation.
§ 84-112. When intent to revoke expressed.
§ 84-113. Codicils revoked with will.
§ 84-114. Divorce or annulment as revoking will.
§ 84-131. After-born children not provided for in will.
§ 84-132. Provision for children unintentionally omitted.
§ 84-133. How provision made as to child born after or omitted from will.
§ 84-134. Advancements cover rights.
§ 84-141. Devise of land gives all estator's estate.
§ 84-142. Death of devisee or legatee before testator - Rights of descendants.
§ 84-143. Gift to witness void - Exception.
§ 84-144. Witness entitled without will.
§ 84-145. Subsequent incompetency of witnesses immaterial.
§ 84-146. Property acquired after will.
§ 84-151. Intention of testator governs.
§ 84-152. Ascertaining intention.
§ 84-153. Rules of this article govern interpretation.
§ 84-154. Several instruments construed as one.
§ 84-155. Irreconcilable parts.
§ 84-156. Plain devise not affected by other parts of will.
§ 84-157. Ambiguities.
§ 84-158. Words taken in ordinary sense.
§ 84-159. Words to be given effect if possible.
§ 84-160. Interpretation against total intestacy.
§ 84-161. Technical words.
§ 84-162. Technical expression not required.
§ 84-163. Words of inheritance not necessary.
§ 84-164. Execution of power to devise.
§ 84-165. General disposition includes what.
§ 84-166. Devise of residue of real estate.
§ 84-167. Devise of residue of personalty.
§ 84-168. Effect of certain terms as "heirs," "relations," etc.
§ 84-169. When terms "heirs," "relations," etc. construed as words of donation.
§ 84-170. Words referring to survivorship.
§ 84-171. Disposition to class includes all.
§ 84-172. Conversion of realty into money.
§ 84-173. Unborn child included in class, when.
§ 84-174. Errors corrected, how.
§ 84-175. Rights presumed to vest on testator's death.
§ 84-176. Rights divested, when.
§ 84-177. Death of devisee or legatee causes failure.
§ 84-178. Remaindermen not affected by death of devisee or legatee.
§ 84-179. Conditional disposition defined.
§ 84-180. Condition precedent defined.
§ 84-181. Condition precedent must be fulfilled - Exception.
§ 84-182. Substantial compliance as performance of condition precedent.
§ 84-183. Condition subsequent defined.
§ 84-184. Owners in common created, when.
§ 84-185. Gifts do not reduce legacies.
§ 84-186. Unlimited marital deduction - Interpretation of will.
§ 84-211. Succession defined.
§ 84-212. Property of intestate passes to heirs subject to control of court and possession of administrator.
§ 84-213. Descent and distribution.
§ 84-214. Dower and courtesy abolished.
§ 84-215. Inheritance by and from illegitimate child.
§ 84-216. Inheritance from illegitimate child.
§ 84-217. Degrees of kindred.
§ 84-218. Lineal and collateral.
§ 84-219. Ascending and descending lines.
§ 84-220. Degrees in direct line.
§ 84-221. Collateral degrees, how reckoned.
§ 84-222. Kindred of the half-blood.
§ 84-223. Advancements.
§ 84-224. Excess not refunded.
§ 84-225. Advancements defined.
§ 84-226. Expressed value of advancement governs.
§ 84-227. Representation in advancements.
§ 84-228. Representation defined - Posthumous children.
§ 84-229. Aliens may take.
§ 84-230. Liabilities of heirs.
§ 84-231. Person causing death not to inherit nor benefit by insurance of decedent.
§ 84-232. Automobiles - Surviving spouse's rights.
§ 84-251. Proceedings authorized - Jurisdiction - Final determination - Appeal.
§ 84-252. Petition - Contents.
§ 84-253. Hearing, process and service.
§ 84-254. Trial and judgment - Rehearings.
§ 84-255. Appeals.
§ 84-256. Remedies cumulative.
§ 84-257. Actions to determine persons entitled to real property - Description of parties - Publication of notice.
§ 84-258. Judgment.
§ 84-259. Conclusiveness of judgment.
§ 84-260. Service by publication - Mailing notice to persons named in petition.
§ 84-261. Proof of service.
§ 84-271. Conditions of escheat.
§ 84-271.1. Abandoned mineral interests.
§ 84-273. Petition in escheat by Attorney General or district attorney.
§ 84-274. Summons - Notification to Attorney General.
§ 84-275. Parties - Trial and judgment - Costs.
§ 84-276. Sale of property.
§ 84-277. Appeals.
§ 84-301. Devises or bequests by will to trustee of trust established by written instrument independently of will - Permissible terms and conditions.
§ 84-302. Devises or bequests executed prior to effective date.
§ 84-303. Construction.
§ 84-304. Citation.
§ 84-305. Life insurance policies - Trustee named by will as beneficiary.
§ 84-306. Liability for debts and taxes.
§ 84-307. Commingling of proceeds.
§ 84-308. Prior beneficiary designations not affected.
§ 84-350. Short title.
§ 84-351. Definitions.
§ 84-852. Validity of a will.
§ 84-853. Requirements of a will.
§ 84-854. Signature, date, and declaration.
§ 84-855. Signature establishing execution of valid international will.
§ 84-856. Certificate - Formal validity.
§ 84-857. International will - Rules of revocation of wills.
§ 84-858. Interpretation of Uniform International Wills Act.
§ 84-859. Authorized persons.