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970 – Shares of Unknown or Absent Owner.

§ 970. Shares of unknown or absent owner. Where a person has been made a defendant as an unknown person, or where the name of a defendant is unknown, or where the summons has been served upon a defendant without the state or by publication, and he has not appeared in the action, the court […]

971 – Security for Refund.

§ 971. Security for refund. The court, in its discretion, may require any person, before he receives his portion of the proceeds of the sale to give such security as it directs, to the state, or the county treasurer, who shall hold it for the use and benefit of the persons interested, or to such […]

973 – Report of Disposition of Proceeds.

§ 973. Report of disposition of proceeds. Within sixty days after the entry of final judgment, unless such time be extended by an order of the court entered in the office of the clerk within said sixty days, the officer making the sale shall file with the clerk his report under oath of the disposition […]

981 – Costs and Expenses.

§ 981. Costs and expenses. 1. The final judgment for the partition of the property must also award that each defendant pay to the plaintiff his proportion of the plaintiff’s costs, including the additional allowance. The sum to be paid by each must be fixed by the court according to the respective rights of the […]

991 – Proceeding for Share of Unknown Heirs; Presumption of Death; Service.

§ 991. Proceeding for share of unknown heirs; presumption of death; service. 1. Where a portion of the proceeds of the sale is paid into court for unknown heirs and is unclaimed by any person entitled thereto for twenty-five years after such payment the unknown heirs are presumed to have been dead at the time […]

992 – Judgment in Proceeding for Share of Unknown Heirs.

§ 992. Judgment in proceeding for share of unknown heirs. Unknown heirs or their representatives not appearing shall be barred from any interest and the court shall render a judgment that the interest of such unknown heirs was vested in the known heirs of the ancestor from whom the unknown heirs derived title and that […]

993 – Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act.

§ 993. Uniform partition of heirs property act. 1. Short title. This section shall be known as the “uniform partition of heirs property act”. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) “Ascendant” means an individual who precedes another individual in lineage, in the direct line of […]

964 – Payment of Proceeds Into Court in Cases Involving Decedent’s Property.

§ 964. Payment of proceeds into court in cases involving decedent’s property. Where the property has been sold free from the lien of debts, a final judgment, entered before eighteen months have elapsed from the granting of letters of administration or letters testamentary upon the estate of a decedent from whom the plaintiff derived his […]