(1) This title shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.
(2) The underlying purposes and policies of this title are:
(a) to simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents, missing persons, protected persons, minors, and incapacitated persons;
(b) to discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of the decedent's property;
(c) to promote a speedy and efficient system for administering the estate of the decedent and making distribution to the decedent's successors;
(d) to facilitate use and enforcement of certain trusts; and
(e) to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.