43-8-112
Section 43-8-112 Family allowance. In addition to the right to homestead allowance and exempt
property, if the decedent was domiciled in this state, the surviving spouse and minor children
whom the decedent was obligated to support and children who were in fact being supported by
him are entitled to a reasonable allowance in money out of the estate for their maintenance
during the period of administration, which allowance may not continue for longer than one
year if the estate is inadequate to discharge allowed claims. The allowance may be paid as
a lump sum or in periodic installments. It is payable to the surviving spouse, if living,
for the use of the surviving spouse and minor and dependent children; otherwise to the children,
or persons having their care and custody; but in case any minor child or dependent child is
not living with the surviving spouse, the allowance may be made partially to the child or
his guardian or other person having his care and custody, and partially to...
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43-8-110
Section 43-8-110 Homestead allowance. (a) A surviving spouse of a decedent who was domiciled
in this state is entitled to a homestead allowance of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
If there is no surviving spouse, each minor child and each dependent child of the decedent
is entitled to a homestead allowance amounting to fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) divided
by the number of minor and dependent children of the decedent. The homestead allowance is
exempt from and has priority over all claims against the estate. Homestead allowance is in
addition to any share passing to the surviving spouse or minor or dependent child by the will
of the decedent unless otherwise provided in the will, by intestate succession or by way of
elective share. (b) The value of any constitutional right of homestead in the family home
received by a surviving spouse or child shall be charged against that spouse or child's homestead
allowance to the extent that the family home is part of the decedent's estate...
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43-8-113
Section 43-8-113 Source, determination and documentation of exempt property and allowances;
petition for relief by personal representative or interested person. If the estate is otherwise
sufficient, property specifically devised is not used to satisfy rights to homestead and exempt
property. Subject to this restriction, the surviving spouse, the guardians of the minor children,
or children who are adults may select property of the estate as homestead allowance and exempt
property. The personal representative may make these selections if the surviving spouse, the
children or the guardians of the minor children are unable or fail to do so within a reasonable
time or if there are no guardians of the minor children. The personal representative may execute
an instrument or deed of distribution to establish the ownership of property taken as homestead
allowance or exempt property. He or she may determine the family allowance in a lump sum not
exceeding fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) or...
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19-3B-505
Section 19-3B-505 Creditor's claim against settlor. (a) Whether or not the terms of a trust
contain a spendthrift provision, the following rules apply: (1) During the lifetime of the
settlor, the property of a revocable trust is subject to claims of the settlor's creditors.
(2) With respect to an irrevocable trust, a creditor or assignee of the settlor may reach
the maximum amount that can be distributed to or for the settlor's benefit. If a trust has
more than one settlor, then the amount the creditor or assignee of a particular settlor may
reach may not exceed the settlor's interest in the portion of the trust attributable to that
settlor's contribution. (3) After the death of a settlor, and subject to the settlor's right
to direct the source from which liabilities will be paid, the property of a trust that was
revocable immediately prior to the settlor's death is subject to claims of the settlor's creditors,
costs of administration of the settlor's estate, the expenses of the...
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43-8-115
Section 43-8-115 Discharge of debtor from liability for wages, etc., owed intestate former
employee of another; status of funds paid under this section. (a) Whenever an employee of
another shall die intestate and there shall be due him or her any sum as wages or salary the
debtor may discharge himself or herself from liability therefor by paying such amount to the
surviving spouse of the deceased employee or, if there is no surviving spouse to the person
having the legal custody and control of his or her minor child or children, or either as the
case may be, who may commence an action for and recover the same as part of the property or
allowance exempted to them. (b) Any sums paid in accordance with subsection (a) shall be considered
as part of the exempt property, as defined in Section 43-8-111; and, if the sums exceed seven
thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) the excess shall be considered part of the family allowance,
as defined in Section 43-8-112. (Acts 1984, 1st Ex. Sess., No....
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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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6-10-39
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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6-10-100
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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43-8-111
Section 43-8-111 Exempt property. If the decedent was domiciled in this state at the time of
death the surviving spouse is entitled to receive, in addition to the homestead allowance,
property of a value not exceeding seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) in excess of
any security interests therein in household furniture, automobiles, furnishings, appliances
and personal effects. If there is no surviving spouse, children of the decedent are entitled
jointly to the same value. If encumbered chattels are selected and if the value in excess
of security interests, plus that of other exempt property, is less than seven thousand five
hundred dollars ($7,500), or if there is not seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500)
worth of exempt property in the estate, the spouse or children are entitled to other assets
of the estate, if any, to the extent necessary to make up the seven thousand five hundred
dollars ($7,500) value. Rights to exempt property and assets needed to make up a...
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