Section 700.7611 - Allowance or disallowance of claims against revocable trust. - Michigan Statutes

ESTATES AND PROTECTED INDIVIDUALS CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 386 of 1998

700.7611 Allowance or disallowance of claims against revocable trust.

Sec. 7611.

If there is no personal representative appointed for the settlor's estate and notice is given in accordance with section 7608, the allowance or disallowance of a claim presented in the manner described in section 7609(1) and within a time period described in section 7610 is governed by the following provisions:

(a) The trustee may deliver or mail a notice to the claimant stating that the claim has been disallowed in whole or in part. If, after allowing or disallowing a claim, the trustee changes a decision concerning the claim, the trustee shall notify the claimant. The trustee shall not change a decision disallowing a claim if the time for the claimant to commence a proceeding for allowance expires or if the time to commence a proceeding on the claim expires and the claim has been barred. A claim that is disallowed in whole or in part by the trustee is barred to the extent not allowed unless the claimant commences a proceeding against the trustee not later than 63 days after the mailing of the notice of disallowance or partial allowance if the notice warns the claimant of the impending bar. Failure by the trustee to deliver or mail to a claimant notice of action on the claim within 63 days after the time for the claim's presentation has expired constitutes a notice of allowance.

(b) After allowing or disallowing a claim, the trustee may change the allowance or disallowance as provided in this subdivision. Before payment, the trustee may change the allowance to a disallowance in whole or in part, but not after allowance by a court order or judgment, or an order directing payment of the claim. The trustee shall notify the claimant of the change to disallowance, and the disallowed claim is then subject to bar as provided in subdivision (a). The trustee may change a disallowance to an allowance, in whole or in part, until it is barred under subdivision (a). After a claim is barred, it may be allowed and paid only if the trust is solvent and all whose interests would be affected consent.

(c) Upon the trustee's or a claimant's commencement of a proceeding, the court may allow in whole or in part a claim properly presented in due time and not barred by subdivision (a).

(d) A judgment in a proceeding in another court against a trustee to enforce a claim against a decedent's estate constitutes an allowance of the claim.

(e) Unless otherwise provided in a judgment in another court entered against the trustee, an allowed claim bears interest at a rate determined under section 6013 of the revised judicature act of 1961, MCL 600.6013, for the period commencing 63 days after the time for original presentation of the claim has expired, unless based on a contract that provides for interest, in which case the claim bears interest in accordance with the contract.

History: Add. 2009, Act 46, Eff. Apr. 1, 2010
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