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6-10-2
Section 6-10-2 Homestead exemption - Amount; area. The homestead of every resident of this
state, with the improvements and appurtenances, not exceeding in value fifteen thousand dollars
($15,000) and in area 160 acres, shall be, to the extent of any interest he or she may have
therein, whether a fee or less estate or whether held in common or in severalty, exempt from
levy and sale under execution or other process for the collection of debts during his or her
life and occupancy and, if he or she leaves surviving him or her a spouse and a minor child,
or children, or either, during the life of the surviving spouse and minority of the child,
or children, but the area of the homestead shall not be enlarged by reason of any encumbrance
thereon or of the character of the estate or interest owned therein by him or her. When a
husband and wife jointly own a homestead each is entitled to claim separately the exemption
provided herein, to the same extent and value as an unmarried individual....
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6-10-94
Section 6-10-94 Reduced homestead incapable of allotment - Possession by surviving spouse and
minor children until sold, etc. When the homestead, after being reduced to its lowest practicable
area, still exceeds $6,000 in value and no exemption in lieu of homestead has been obtained,
the surviving spouse and minor child or children, or either, may retain the possession of
the homestead as thus reduced, free from the payment of rent, until the same shall be sold
or there is a division of the lands of the decedent; and in the event of a sale of such homestead
in the course of administration, it shall be sold separately from the other lands of the decedent,
if there be other. (Code 1896, §2092; Code 1907, §4219; Code 1923, §7942; Code 1940, T.
7, §685; Acts 1951, No. 911, p. 1558, §1.)...
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6-10-38
Section 6-10-38 Contest of exemption claim - Proceedings when homestead found to exceed value
or area allowed. (a) If, on the trial of a contest of a claim of homestead exemption, it is
found that the homestead as claimed exceeds $5,000 in value (or if a husband and wife have
both claimed the exemption to which each is entitled, $10,000), or 160 acres in area, the
court shall forthwith issue an order to the sheriff, returnable in 30 days thereafter, commanding
him to summon three disinterested householders or freeholders of the county in which the homestead
is situated, who, after having been sworn by the sheriff or some officer authorized to administer
oaths to faithfully discharge their duty, shall, if practicable, set off and allot, by metes
and bounds, the homestead exempt to the defendant from levy and sale under process, having
regard both to the quality and value of the real estate and to the selection of the defendant
and taking land most contiguous to the dwelling, and...
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6-10-86
Section 6-10-86 Report of appraisers or commissioners - Exceptions; notice of time set for
hearing thereon. When any homestead or other exemption has been allotted or set apart by the
appraisers or by commissioners, the personal representative, surviving spouse, minor child
or children, or other person in interest feeling aggrieved may, within 30 days after the making
of the report, file written exceptions thereto, stating the grounds of such exceptions. Thereupon
the court must fix a day for the hearing of the exceptions, of which 10 days' notice must
be given by personal service, if the adverse parties reside in the state or, if they reside
out of the state, by publication in some newspaper published in the county. If the exceptions
are filed by the surviving spouse and minor child or children, or either, such notice must
be served on the personal representative, but if filed by the personal representative or other
person, the notice must be served on the surviving spouse, if there...
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6-10-101
Section 6-10-101 Proceedings to set apart exemptions when administration not granted on decedent's
estate within 60 days after death - Vesting of title to real property in surviving spouse
and minors and right to possession thereof. If no exceptions are filed and sustained to such
report of the commissioners setting apart the homestead exemption, the title to the real property
so set aside shall vest in the surviving spouse and minors, share and share alike, but only
during the life of the surviving spouse and minority of the children. If all the real property
left by the decedent in this state does not exceed in area and value the homestead allowed
by law as exempt, title to all such real property shall vest absolutely in the surviving spouse,
the children (minors and adults) and the descendants of deceased children, or, if there is
no surviving spouse, in the children and the descendants of deceased children, or, if there
are no children or descendants of deceased children, in the...
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6-10-84
Section 6-10-84 Proceedings on failure of appraisers to set apart exemptions or to appraise
homestead. If, for more than 20 days after the grant of administration, the appraisers should
fail to set apart the personal property exempt in favor of the surviving spouse and minor
child or children, or either, or to appraise the homestead or to make the report in reference
to the homestead required in Section 6-10-82, then, upon the written application of the surviving
spouse or of the guardian of the minor child or children, the probate court shall appoint
three commissioners who shall, as soon as practicable thereafter not exceeding 30 days, set
apart the personal property exempt and appraise the homestead in the manner required of the
appraisers; and, if practicable, they shall also allot and set off the homestead exemption
in the manner provided in Section 6-10-83. Within 10 days thereafter they shall report to
the court in writing the personal property set apart, with the value of each...
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6-10-102
Section 6-10-102 Effect of removal from homestead. When homestead exemption has been allotted
to the surviving spouse and minor child or children, or either, under any of the provisions
of this division, they shall not be held to have abandoned or forfeited the same by a removal
therefrom. (Code 1896, §2101; Code 1907, §4228; Code 1923, §7952; Code 1940, T. 7, §698.)...

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6-10-39
Section 6-10-39 Interposition of homestead claim or other exemptions and defense of contest
thereof by spouse or minor children. If a husband, wife or parent, entitled to a homestead
or other exemption, absconds or abandons his or her family, leaves the state, is insane, is
confined under a charge or conviction for felony or misdemeanor, or is under any other disability
or inability, the spouse or, if there is no spouse, the minor child or children, residents
of this state with the intention so to continue, shall be entitled to interpose any and all
claims of homestead or other exemption which the husband, wife, or parent could have interposed;
but the right to such exemptions shall continue only so long as the spouse and minor child
or children, or either, shall remain bona fide residents of this state. In the event of the
death of the husband, wife or parent pending any contest of a claim of homestead or other
exemption, such contest may be revived in the name of the surviving...
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6-10-85
Section 6-10-85 How exemption in lieu of homestead claimed and set apart. When an exemption
of real estate in lieu of homestead is claimed under Section 6-10-61, a petition in writing,
duly verified by oath, must be filed by, or on behalf of, the surviving spouse and minor child
or children, or either, as the case may be, in the probate court having jurisdiction of the
administration of the estate, setting forth the facts authorizing such exemption, describing
the real estate out of which the exemption is claimed and stating its value. Thereupon the
court shall appoint three commissioners who shall set off and allot the same by metes and
bounds; and, within 10 days thereafter, they shall make a written report to the court of the
exemption set off and allotted by them. (Code 1886, §2553; Code 1896, §2083; Code 1907,
§4210; Code 1923, §7932; Code 1940, T. 7, §675.)...
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6-10-40
Section 6-10-40 Sale of land and separation of homestead interest from that of alienee. When
the homestead, after being reduced to the lowest practicable area, exceeds $5,000 in value
and the husband or wife has aliened the same by deed, mortgage, or other conveyance without
the voluntary signature and assent of the spouse, shown and acknowledged as required by law,
the alienor or, if he or she fails to act, the spouse or, if there is no spouse or if he or
she fails to act, their minor child or children may, by filing a complaint, have the land
sold and the homestead interest separated from that of the alienee. (Code 1876, §2832; Code
1886, §2538; Code 1896, §2064; Code 1907, §4191; Code 1923, §7913; Code 1940, T. 7, §656;
Acts 1980, No. 80-569, p. 879, §6.)...
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