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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 […]

967 – Payment of Proceeds to Owner of Particular or Future Estate.

§ 967. Payment of proceeds to owner of particular or future estate. A party who has a right of dower, or is a tenant for life or for years, in or of an undivided share of the property sold, or has an inchoate right of dower or any other future right or estate, vested or […]

968 – Manner of Payment of Proceeds to Owner of Particular or Future Estate.

§ 968. Manner of payment of proceeds to owner of particular or future estate. Whenever the whole or a part of the proceeds of a sale represents the interest of a particular estate, and also represents one or more other interests subsequent thereto, the power to determine whether the owner of the particular estate shall […]

969 – Shares of Infant, Incompetent or Conservatee.

§ 969. Shares of infant, incompetent or conservatee. Where a party entitled to receive a portion of the proceeds of sale is an infant, incompetent or conservatee, such portion may be disposed of as follows: 1. The court may direct it to be invested in permanent securities in the name and for the benefit of […]