75-3-901 - Successors' rights if no administration. - Utah Statutes

75-3-901. Successors' rights if no administration.
In the absence of administration, the heirs and devisees are entitled to the estate inaccordance with the terms of a probated will or the laws of intestate succession. Devisees mayestablish title by the probated will to devised property. Persons entitled to property by homesteadallowance, exemption, or intestacy may establish title thereto by proof of the decedent'sownership, his death, and their relationship to the decedent. Successors take subject to all chargesincident to administration, including the claims of creditors and allowances of surviving spouseand dependent children, and subject to the rights of others resulting from abatement, retainer,advancement, and ademption.

Enacted by Chapter 150, 1975 General Session