STATE STATUTES & CODES

MAINE STATUTES AND CODES

Article 2: INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS

• 18-A §2-101. Intestate estate
• 18-A §2-102. Share of spouse or registered domestic partner
• 18-A §2-103. Share of heirs other than surviving spouse or surviving registered domestic partner
• 18-A §2-104. Requirement that heir survive decedent for 120 hours
• 18-A §2-105. No taker
• 18-A §2-106. Per capita at each generation
• 18-A §2-107. Kindred of half blood
• 18-A §2-108. Afterborn heirs
• 18-A §2-109. Meaning of child and related terms
• 18-A §2-110. Advancements
• 18-A §2-111. Debts to decedent
• 18-A §2-112. Alienage
• 18-A §2-113. Dower and curtesy abolished
• 18-A §2-114. Persons related to decedent through 2 lines
• 18-A §2-201. Right to elective share
• 18-A §2-202. Augmented estate
• 18-A §2-203. Right of election personal to surviving spouse
• 18-A §2-204. Waiver of right to elect and of other rights
• 18-A §2-205. Proceeding for elective share; time limit
• 18-A §2-206. Effect of election on benefits provided by statute
• 18-A §2-207. Charging spouse with gifts received; liability of others for balance of elective share
• 18-A §2-301. Omitted spouse
• 18-A §2-302. Pretermitted children
• 18-A §2-401. Homestead allowance
• 18-A §2-402. Exempt property
• 18-A §2-403. Family allowance
• 18-A §2-404. Source, determination and documentation
• 18-A §2-405. Estate property exempt
• 18-A §2-501. Who may make a will
• 18-A §2-502. Execution
• 18-A §2-503. Holographic will
• 18-A §2-504. Self-proved will
• 18-A §2-505. Who may witness
• 18-A §2-506. Choice of law as to execution
• 18-A §2-507. Revocation by writing or by act
• 18-A §2-508. Revocation by divorce; no revocation by other changes of circumstances
• 18-A §2-509. Revival of revoked will
• 18-A §2-510. Incorporation by reference
• 18-A §2-511. Testamentary additions to trusts
• 18-A §2-512. Events of independent significance
• 18-A §2-513. Separate writing identifying bequest of tangible property
• 18-A §2-514. Statutory wills
• 18-A §2-601. Requirement that devisee survive testator by 120 hours
• 18-A §2-602. Choice of law as to meaning and effect of wills
• 18-A §2-603. Rules of construction and intention
• 18-A §2-604. Construction that will passes all property; after-acquired property
• 18-A §2-605. Anti-lapse; deceased devisee; class gifts
• 18-A §2-606. Failure of testamentary provision
• 18-A §2-607. Change in securities; accessions; nonademption
• 18-A §2-608. Nonademption of specific devises in certain cases; unpaid proceeds of sale, condemnation or insurance; sale by conservator
• 18-A §2-609. Nonexoneration
• 18-A §2-610. Exercise of power of appointment
• 18-A §2-611. Construction of generic terms in wills and trust instruments
• 18-A §2-612. Ademption by satisfaction
• 18-A §2-701. Contracts concerning succession
• 18-A §2-801. Renunciation of property interests
• 18-A §2-802. Effect of divorce, annulment and decree of separation
• 18-A §2-803. Effect of homicide on intestate succession, wills, joint assets, life insurance and beneficiary designations
• 18-A §2-804. Actions for wrongful death
• 18-A §2-805. Simultaneous death
• 18-A §2-901. Disposition of will deposited with court
• 18-A §2-902. Duty of custodian of will; liability