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Kentucky Chapter 394 — Wills

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  • KRS 394.010— "Will" defined
  • KRS 394.020— Persons competent to make -- What may be disposed of
  • KRS 394.030— Minor can make will, when
  • KRS 394.035— Uniform disclaimer of transfers under nontestamentary instruments
  • KRS 394.040— Requisites of a valid will
  • KRS 394.050— Repealed, 1972
  • KRS 394.060— Repealed, 2020
  • KRS 394.065— Validity of trust, devise or legacy not affected by specified provisions
  • KRS 394.070— Repealed, 2020
  • KRS 394.075— Repealed, 1998
  • KRS 394.076— Uniform testamentary additions to trust act
  • KRS 394.080— Revocation of will -- How effected
  • KRS 394.090— Nonrevocation of will by marriage of testator
  • KRS 394.092— Effect of divorce or annulment of marriage of testator
  • KRS 394.095— Repealed, 1982
  • KRS 394.100— Revoked will may be revived, how
  • KRS 394.110— Repealed, 2019
  • KRS 394.120— Validity of nonresident's will
  • KRS 394.130— Will not admissible as evidence until probated -- Effect of probate
  • KRS 394.140— Will probated in District Court -- Venue
  • KRS 394.145— Application for probate of will
  • KRS 394.150— Probate of nonresident's will
  • KRS 394.160— Court may compel production of a will
  • KRS 394.170— Propounder of will may have interested parties summoned
  • KRS 394.180— Court may order interested parties summoned
  • KRS 394.190— Summons or warning order -- Persons under disability
  • KRS 394.200— Creditors and executors are competent witnesses
  • KRS 394.210— Attesting witness -- Effect of subsequent incompetency of or devise to
  • KRS 394.220— Court may probate will without summoning parties
  • KRS 394.225— Self-proved will
  • KRS 394.230— Deposition of subscribing witness -- When and how may be taken
  • KRS 394.235— Proof of will where witnesses unavailable
  • KRS 394.240— Actions in Circuit Court -- Time in which to be brought -- Filing notice of proceeding
  • KRS 394.250— When action in circuit court stays proceedings under will -- Court may stop distribution
  • KRS 394.260— Proceedings in Circuit Court
  • KRS 394.270— Evidence given on probate may be read at trial
  • KRS 394.280— Nonresidents, persons not parties and infants may have retrial -- Time -- Extent of
  • KRS 394.290— Repealed, 1960
  • KRS 394.295— Vacation or modification of judgment upon discovery of later will
  • KRS 394.300— Recording of wills
  • KRS 394.310— Original will may be withdrawn from court, when
  • KRS 394.320— Repealed, 1980
  • KRS 394.330— Will speaks as of time testator dies
  • KRS 394.340— General devise of land includes all interests therein owned by testator
  • KRS 394.350— Conveyance or act subsequent to will -- Effect as to interest owned at death
  • KRS 394.360— Conversion or removal of devised property not an ademption unless intended
  • KRS 394.370— Advancement, when deemed satisfaction of devise
  • KRS 394.380— Repealed, 1972
  • KRS 394.382— Share of pretermitted child
  • KRS 394.390— Repealed, 1972
  • KRS 394.400— Issue of dead devisee or legatee take parent's share
  • KRS 394.410— Death of part of group of devisees before testator -- Children includes grandchildren
  • KRS 394.420— Contribution, when devised estate used for payment of testator's debt
  • KRS 394.430— Residuary and other legatees not entitled to contribution
  • KRS 394.440— Specific and general devises -- Distinction
  • KRS 394.450— Contribution when title to estate devised to heir fails
  • KRS 394.460— Posthumous child -- How share made up
  • KRS 394.470— Posthumous child to make contribution
  • KRS 394.480— Contribution when curtesy or dower taken from devise
  • KRS 394.490— Law as to property devised subject to lien
  • KRS 394.500— Void or lapsed devise included in residuary devise
  • KRS 394.510— Obligee has lien on devise charged with obligation
  • KRS 394.520— Specific legacy -- When payable
  • KRS 394.530— Purchaser of trust estate -- When required to see to application
  • KRS 394.540— Contract to make a will, not to revoke a will or to die intestate
  • KRS 394.550— Stock legacy to include split shares, dividends, and shares issued in merger and exchange
  • KRS 394.610— Right to disclaim succession
  • KRS 394.620— Time and place of filing disclaimer
  • KRS 394.630— Effect of disclaimer
  • KRS 394.640— Waiver and bar
  • KRS 394.650— Exclusiveness of remedy
  • KRS 394.660— Repealed, 1982
  • KRS 394.670— Uniformity of application and construction
  • KRS 394.680— Short title