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Probate Guide A Guide for clerks serving courts with Probate jurisdiction September 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE .. 0 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION .. 1 The Probate Court .. 1 Overview of the Testate and Intestate Estate .. 2 Sample Guidelines for Initiating An Estate .. 2 CHAPTER TWO ADMISSION OF WILL TO Probate .. 4 Time Limitations on Probate .. 4 Who Presents the Will or Wills .. 5 Renunciation by Devisee .. 5 Common Form Probate .. 5 Solemn Form Probate .. 5 Notice and Its Effect .. 5 Time of Notice .. 6 Other Considerations .. 6 Sufficiency of the Will .. 7 Common Form .. 7 Solemn Form .. 8 Affidavits .. 8 Secondary Proof .. 9 Out-of-State Execution of Will .. 9 Construction of Will .. 9 Contents of Petition .. 10 CHAPTER THREE WILL CONTEST .. 11 Jurisdiction .. 11 Certificate of Contest .. 11 Bond .. 11 Contest Before Probate in Common form.
Probate jurisdiction has been vested in eneral Sessions G Court in several counties by private act. Under this law, where the chancery court exercises primary jurisdiction of probate matters, the clerk and master may perform many of the functions formerly reserved to the county judge, subject to the review and approval of the chancellor, as well as
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