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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6-10-38
of the plaintiff accompanied by an offer in writing to purchase the same for an amount exceeding
$5,000 (or if a husband and wife have both claimed the exemption to which each is entitled,
$10,000), which offer must state the amount and, at the election of the defendant, shall be
binding on the plaintiff. (c) When a sale is made under subsection (b) of this section and
any defendant dies before receiving their $5,000 standing in lieu of the homestead, the same
shall be paid to his or her personal representative, who shall receive and hold it
subject to the homestead rights of the defendant's surviving spouse and minor child or children,
or either, if there be such; but, if there be none such, the personal representative
shall first apply the same to the payment of the demand for the enforcement of which the process
issued, and the balance he shall administer as personal assets of the estate. (Code
1876, §2832; Code 1886, §§2534-2536; Code 1896, §§2060-2062; Code 1907,...
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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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6-10-102
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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6-10-94
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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6-10-86
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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6-10-85
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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6-10-84
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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6-10-101
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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6-10-100
Section 6-10-100 Proceedings to set apart exemptions when administration not granted on decedent's
estate within 60 days after death - Generally. (a) When the property, real or personal,
owned by a decedent at the time of his death does not exceed in amount and value the exemption
allowed in favor of his or her surviving spouse and minor child or children, or either, and
no administration is granted on his estate within 60 days after his death, the probate court
of the county in which he resided at the time of his death, upon the application of the surviving
spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse or he or she does not act, upon the application
of a suitable person who shall be appointed by the judge of probate as the next friend of
such minor child or children, verified by oath and setting forth such facts, as well as the
names, condition, and residence, if known, of the heirs of the decedent other than the minor
children of the decedent, must appoint two commissioners, who shall...
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