18-A §3-901. Successors' rights if no administration - Maine Statutes

Title 18-A: PROBATE CODE

Article 3: PROBATE OF WILLS AND ADMINISTRATION

Part 9: SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION

§3-901. Successors' rights if no administration

In the absence of administration, the heirs and devisees are entitled to the estate in accordance with the terms of a probated will or the laws of intestate succession. Devisees may establish title by the probated will to devised property. Persons entitled to property by homestead allowance, exemption or intestacy may establish title thereto by proof of the decedent's ownership, his death, and their relationship to the decedent. Successors take subject to all charges incident to administration, including the claims of creditors and allowances of surviving spouse and dependent children, and subject to the rights of others resulting from abatement, retainer, advancement, and ademption. [1979, c. 540, §1 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

1979, c. 540, §1 (NEW).