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  • PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
    (Chapters 183 through 210)
  • TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
  • CHAPTER 197 PAYMENT OF DEBTS, LEGACIES AND DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES

Section 1 - Executor or administrator, defined

Section 2 - Time of payment

Section 2A - Repealed, 1989, 329, Sec. 4

Section 3 - Payment; defense against further claims

Section 4 - New claims; insufficient assets; payment

Section 5 - Preferred claims; payment; actions by unsecured creditors

Section 6 - Debts due executors or administrators; settlement; arbitration

Section 7 - Debts due executors or administrators; settlement by court

Section 8 - Joint liability of deceased

Section 9 - Commencement of action; service of process; action against trustee; recovery of medical assistance payments

Section 9A - Actions for personal injuries or death; limitations; satisfaction of judgment restricted

Section 10 - Barred claims; procedure

Section 11 - New assets; effect on unsatisfied creditors; extension of time

Section 12 - Defective actions; extension of time

Section 13 - Unliquidated claims; presentment for payment

Section 14 - Unliquidated claims; conclusiveness of judgment

Section 15 - Unliquidated claims; actions

Section 16 - Unliquidated claims; pleadings

Section 17 - Repealed, 1989, 329, Sec. 8

Section 18 - Repealed, 1989, 329, Sec. 9

Section 19 - Legacies; actions to recover

Section 20 - Interest; rates; time payable

Section 21 - Payment of certain legacies; indemnity for repayment

Section 22 - Partial distribution

Section 23 - Class legacies

Section 24 - Distributive shares, enforcement of payment

Section 25 - Debts due estate; set-off against legacies

Section 25A - Lifetime gifts as satisfaction of legacy

Section 26 - Annuities, etc.; commencement of use or payment

Section 27 - Repealed, 2005, 129, Sec. 1

Section 28 - General provisions

Section 29 - Recovery against heirs; exemption through will

Section 30 - Death of heir, next of kin, devisee or legatee; effect

Section 31 - Suit in equity; liability of several heirs

Section 32 - Improper parties defendants; effect

Section 33 - Insolvency of person liable for debt; effect

Section 34 - Nonpayment by one heir; rights of others