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Title 14: Decedents Estates and Fiduciary Relations

Chapter 042: Descent and Survivors' Rights

• Subchapter 001: GENERAL PROVISIONS
•    § 301. Intestate estate

•    § 302. Dower and curtesy abolished

•    § 303. Afterborn heirs

• Subchapter 002: SURVIVORS' RIGHTS AND ALLOWANCES
•    § 311. Share of surviving spouse

•    § 312. Surviving spouse to receive household goods

•    § 313. Surviving spouse; vessel, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle

•    § 314. Share of heirs other than surviving spouse

•    § 315. Parent and child relationship

•    § 316. Allowances for surviving spouse and family during administration

•    § 317. Allowance to children before payment of debts

•    § 318. Allowance to children after payment of debts

•    § 319. Elective share of surviving spouse; notice of rights

•    § 320. Effect of divorce order

•    § 321. Conveyance to defeat spouse's interest

•    § 322. Unlawful killing affecting inheritance

•    § 323. Written waiver of spousal rights

• Subchapter 003: DESCENT, OMITTED ISSUE, AND LAPSED LEGACIES
•    § 331. Degrees; how computed: kindred of half-blood

•    § 332. Share of afterborn child

•    § 333. Share of child or descendant of child omitted from will

•    § 334. Afterborn and omitted child; from what part of estate share taken

•    § 335. Beneficiary dying before testator; descendants to take

•    § 336. Individual absent and unheard of; share of estate

•    § 337. Requirement that individual survive decedent for 120 hours

•    § 338. Distribution; order in which assets appropriated; abatement

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