Title 18-A, Article 2: INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS

Title 18-A, Article 2: INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS

Part 1: INTESTATE SUCCESSION

18-A §2-101. Intestate estate (REPEALED)

18-A §2-102. Share of spouse or registered domestic partner (REPEALED)

18-A §2-103. Share of heirs other than surviving spouse or surviving registered domestic partner (REPEALED)

18-A §2-104. Requirement that heir survive decedent for 120 hours (REPEALED)

18-A §2-105. No taker (REPEALED)

18-A §2-106. Per capita at each generation (REPEALED)

18-A §2-107. Kindred of half blood (REPEALED)

18-A §2-108. Afterborn heirs (REPEALED)

18-A §2-109. Meaning of child and related terms (REPEALED)

18-A §2-110. Advancements (REPEALED)

18-A §2-111. Debts to decedent (REPEALED)

18-A §2-112. Alienage (REPEALED)

18-A §2-113. Dower and curtesy abolished (REPEALED)

18-A §2-114. Persons related to decedent through 2 lines (REPEALED)

Part 2: ELECTIVE SHARE OF SURVIVING SPOUSE

18-A §2-201. Right to elective share (REPEALED)

18-A §2-202. Augmented estate (REPEALED)

18-A §2-203. Right of election personal to surviving spouse (REPEALED)

18-A §2-204. Waiver of right to elect and of other rights (REPEALED)

18-A §2-205. Proceeding for elective share; time limit (REPEALED)

18-A §2-206. Effect of election on benefits provided by statute (REPEALED)

18-A §2-207. Charging spouse with gifts received; liability of others for balance of elective share (REPEALED)

Part 3: SPOUSE AND CHILDREN UNPROVIDED FOR IN WILLS

18-A §2-301. Omitted spouse (REPEALED)

18-A §2-302. Pretermitted children (REPEALED)

Part 4: EXEMPT PROPERTY AND ALLOWANCES

18-A §2-401. Homestead allowance (REPEALED)

18-A §2-402. Exempt property (REPEALED)

18-A §2-403. Family allowance (REPEALED)

18-A §2-404. Source, determination and documentation (REPEALED)

18-A §2-405. Estate property exempt (REPEALED)

Part 5: WILLS

18-A §2-501. Who may make a will (REPEALED)

18-A §2-502. Execution (REPEALED)

18-A §2-503. Holographic will (REPEALED)

18-A §2-504. Self-proved will (REPEALED)

18-A §2-505. Who may witness (REPEALED)

18-A §2-506. Choice of law as to execution (REPEALED)

18-A §2-507. Revocation by writing or by act (REPEALED)

18-A §2-508. Revocation by divorce; no revocation by other changes of circumstances (REPEALED)

18-A §2-509. Revival of revoked will (REPEALED)

18-A §2-510. Incorporation by reference (REPEALED)

18-A §2-511. Testamentary additions to trusts (REPEALED)

18-A §2-512. Events of independent significance (REPEALED)

18-A §2-513. Separate writing identifying bequest of tangible property (REPEALED)

18-A §2-514. Statutory wills (REPEALED)

Part 6: RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

18-A §2-601. Requirement that devisee survive testator by 120 hours (REPEALED)

18-A §2-602. Choice of law as to meaning and effect of wills (REPEALED)

18-A §2-603. Rules of construction and intention (REPEALED)

18-A §2-604. Construction that will passes all property; after-acquired property (REPEALED)

18-A §2-605. Anti-lapse; deceased devisee; class gifts (REPEALED)

18-A §2-606. Failure of testamentary provision (REPEALED)

18-A §2-607. Change in securities; accessions; nonademption (REPEALED)

18-A §2-608. Nonademption of specific devises in certain cases; unpaid proceeds of sale, condemnation or insurance; sale by conservator (REPEALED)

18-A §2-609. Nonexoneration (REPEALED)

18-A §2-610. Exercise of power of appointment (REPEALED)

18-A §2-611. Construction of generic terms in wills and trust instruments (REPEALED)

18-A §2-612. Ademption by satisfaction (REPEALED)

Part 7: CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS RELATING TO DEATH

18-A §2-701. Contracts concerning succession (REPEALED)

Part 8: GENERAL PROVISIONS

18-A §2-801. Renunciation of property interests (REPEALED)

18-A §2-802. Effect of divorce, annulment and decree of separation (REPEALED)

18-A §2-803. Effect of homicide on intestate succession, wills, joint assets, life insurance and beneficiary designations (REPEALED)

18-A §2-804. Actions for wrongful death (REPEALED)

18-A §2-805. Simultaneous death (REPEALED)

18-A §2-806. Effect of criminal conviction on intestate succession, wills, joint assets, beneficiary designations and other property acquisition when restitution is owed to the decedent (REPEALED)

Part 9: CUSTODY AND DEPOSIT OF WILLS

18-A §2-901. Disposition of will deposited with court (REPEALED)

18-A §2-902. Duty of custodian of will; liability (REPEALED)

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