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84 OK Stat § 84-5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-5. Preferred legacies.

|Legacies to husband, widow or kindred of any class, are chargeable only after legacies to persons not related to the testator. |R.L.1910, § 8321.
84 OK Stat § 84-6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-6. Abatement takes effect how.

|Abatement takes place in any class only as between legacies of that class, unless a different intention is expressed in the will. |R.L.1910, § 8322.
84 OK Stat § 84-7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-7. Title and possession - Representative may sell property devised.

|In a specific devise or legacy, the title passes by the will, but possession can only be obtained from the personal representative; and he may be authorized by the district court to sell the property devised or bequeathed, in the cases herein provided. |R.L.1910, § 8323.
84 OK Stat § 84-8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-8. Claim under heir against devisee - Probate proceedings.

|The rights of a purchaser or encumbrancer of real property in good faith, and for value, derived from any person claiming the same by succession, are not impaired by any devise made by the decedent from whom succession is claimed, unless the instrument containing such devise has been duly admitted to probate by a court of this state having jurisdiction to administer upon the estate of the decedent within two (2) years after the death of the decedent, or unless within one (1) year after the death of the decedent a petition to admit said will to probate has been duly filed in the court of this state having jurisdiction to admit said will to probate and the proceedings have been pursued by the petitioner with diligence. |R.L.1910, § 8324; Laws 1967, c. 233, § 1, emerg. eff. May 4, 1967.
84 OK Stat § 84-9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-9. Succession to limited legacies - Inventory of property.

|Where specific legacies are for life only, the first legatees must sign and deliver to the second legatee, or, if there is none, to the personal representative, an inventory of the property, expressing that the same is in his custody for life only, and that, on his decease, it is to be delivered and to remain to the use and for the benefit of the second legatee, or to the personal representative as the case may be. |R.L.1910, § 8325.
84 OK Stat § 84-10 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-10. Bequest of interest or income begins at death.

|In case of a bequest of the interest or income of a certain sum or fund, the income accrues from the testator's death. R.L.1910, Sec. 8326. |R.L.1910, § 8326.
84 OK Stat § 84-11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-11. Satisfaction of legacy before death.

|A legacy, or a gift in contemplation, fear or peril of death, may be satisfied before death. |R.L.1910, § 8327.
84 OK Stat § 84-12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-12. Legacies due, when - Annuities.

|Legacies are due and deliverable at the expiration of one (1) year after the testator's decease. Annuities commence at the testator's decease. |R.L.1910, § 8328.
84 OK Stat § 84-13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-13. Interest on legacies.

|Legacies bear interest from the time when they are due and payable, except that legacies for maintenance, or to the testator's widow, bear interest from the testator's decease. R.L. 1910, Sec. 8329. |R.L.1910, § 8329.
84 OK Stat § 84-14 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-14. Intention of testator controls.

|The four preceding sections are in all cases to be controlled by a testator's express intention. R.L. 1910, Sec. 8330. |R.L.1910, § 8330.
84 OK Stat § 84-15 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-15. Testator's intention as to executor.

|Where it appears by the terms of a will that it was the intention of the testator to commit the execution thereof and the administration of his estate to any person as executor, such person although not named executor, is entitled to letters testamentary in like manner as if he had been named executor. R.L. 1910, Sec. 8331. |R.L.1910, § 8331.
84 OK Stat § 84-16 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-16. Executor may not appoint executor.

|An authority to an executor to appoint an executor, is void. R.L. 1910, Sec. 8332. |R.L.1910, § 8332. R.L.1910, § 8332.
84 OK Stat § 84-17 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-17. Executor's power begins, when - Payment of funeral charges, etc.

|No person has any power, as an executor, until he qualifies, except that, before letters have been issued, he may pay funeral charges and take necessary measures for the preservation of the estate. R.L. 1910, Sec. 8333. |R.L.1910, § 8333.
84 OK Stat § 84-18 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-18. Power of executor of executor.

|No executor of an executor, as such, has any power over the estate of the first testator. R.L. 1910, Sec. 8334. |R.L.1910, § 8410.
84 OK Stat § 84-19 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-19. Will includes codicils.

|The term "will," as used in this chapter, includes all codicils as well as wills. R.L. 1910, Sec. 8335. |R.L.1910, § 8335.
84 OK Stat § 84-20 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-20. Law governing validity and interpretation of wills.

|Except as otherwise provided, the validity and interpretation of wills is governed, when relating to real property within this state, by the law of this state; when relating to personal property, by the law of the testator's domicile. |R.L.1910, § 8336.
84 OK Stat § 84-21 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-21. Liability of beneficiaries.

|Those to whom property is given by will are liable for the obligations of the testator in the cases and to the extent prescribed by the chapter on civil procedure, or the statutes in such case made and provided. R.L. 1910, Sec. 8337. |R.L.1910, § 8337.
84 OK Stat § 84-22 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-22. Disclaimer of interests passing by will, intestate succession, etc. - Definitions

|As used in this act, unless otherwise clearly required by the context: |1. "Beneficiary" means and includes any person entitled, but for his disclaimer, to take an interest, by intestate succession; by devise; by legacy or bequest; by succession of a disclaimed interest by will, intestate succession or through the exercise or nonexercise of a testamentary power of appointment; by virtue of a renunciation and election to take against a will; as beneficiary of a testamentary trust; pursuant to the exercise or nonexercise of a testamentary power of appointment; as donee of a power of appointment created by testamentary instrument; or otherwise under a testamentary instrument;2. "Interest" means and includes the whole of any property, real or personal, legal or equitable, or any fractional part, share or particular portion or specific assets thereof or any estate in any such property or power to appoint, consume, apply or expend property or any other right, power, privilege or immunity relating thereto; and3. "Disclaimer" means a written instrument which declines, refuses, releases, renounces or disclaims an interest which would otherwise be succeeded to by a beneficiary, which instrument defines the nature and extent of the interest disclaimed thereby and which must be signed, witnessed and acknowledged by the disclaimant in the manner provided for deeds of real estate.Added by Laws 1973, c. 158, § 1.
84 OK Stat § 84-23 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-23. Right to file disclaimer - Minor incompetent or deceased beneficiaries.

|A beneficiary may disclaim any interest in whole or in part, or with reference to specific parts, shares or assets thereof, by filing a disclaimer in the manner hereinafter provided. A guardian, executor, administrator or other personal representative of the estate of a minor, incompetent or deceased beneficiary, if he deems it in the best interests of those interested in the estate of such beneficiary and of those who take the beneficiary's interest by virtue of the disclaimer and not detrimental to the best interests of the beneficiary, with or without an order of the probate court, may execute and file a disclaimer on behalf of the beneficiary within the time and in the manner in which the beneficiary himself could disclaim if he were living, of legal age and competent. A beneficiary likewise may execute and file a disclaimer by agent or attorney so empowered. |Laws 1973, c. 158, § 2.
84 OK Stat § 84-24 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-24. Time for filing disclaimer

|Such disclaimer shall be filed at any time after the creation of the interest, but in all events within nine (9) months after the death of the person by whom the interest was created or from whom it would have been received, or, if the disclaimant is not finally ascertained as a beneficiary or his interest has not become indefeasibly fixed both in quality and quantity as of the death of such person, then such disclaimer shall be filed not later than nine (9) months after the event which would cause him so to become finally ascertained and his interest to become indefeasibly fixed both in quality and quantity. |Laws 1973, c. 158, § 3; Laws 1979, c. 25, § 2.
84 OK Stat § 84-25 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-25. Place of filing disclaimer - Delivery of copies - Interest in real estate.

|Such disclaimer shall be effective upon being filed in the district court in which the estate of the person by whom the interest was created or from whom it would have been received is, or has been, administered or, if no probate administration has been commenced, then in the district court of any county provided in Oklahoma Statutes as the place for probate administration of the estate of such person. A copy of the disclaimer shall be delivered or mailed to the representative, trustee or other person having legal title to, or possession of, the property in which the interest disclaimed exists, and no such representative, trustee or person shall be liable for any otherwise proper distribution or other disposition made without actual notice of the disclaimer. If an interest in or relating to real estate is disclaimed the original of the disclaimer, or a copy of the disclaimer certified as true and complete by the clerk of the district court wherein the same has been filed, shall be filed in the office of the county clerk in the county or counties where the real estate is situated and shall constitute notice to all persons only from and after the time of such filing. |Added by Laws 1973, c. 158, § 4.
84 OK Stat § 84-26 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-26. Disposition of interest disclaimed.

|Unless the person by whom the interest was created or from whom it would have been received has otherwise provided by will or other appropriate instrument with reference to the possibility of a disclaimer by the beneficiary, the interest disclaimed shall descend, be distributed or otherwise be disposed of in the same manner as if the disclaimant had died immediately preceding the death or other event which causes him to become finally ascertained as a beneficiary and his interest to become indefeasibly fixed both in quality and quantity, and, in any case, the disclaimer shall relate for all purposes to such date, whether filed before or after such death or other event. However, one disclaiming an interest in a nonresiduary gift, devise or bequest shall not be excluded, unless his disclaimer so provides, from sharing in a gift, devise or bequest of the residue even though, through lapse, such residue includes the assets disclaimed. An interest of any nature in or to the estate of an intestate may be declined, refused or disclaimed as herein provided without ever vesting in the disclaimant. |Added by Laws 1973, c. 158, § 5.
84 OK Stat § 84-27 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-27. Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act not abrogated - Bar on right to disclaim in certain cases.

|Nothing included in this act shall be deemed to amend, repeal or abrogate in any manner Title 24 O.S. 1971, Sections 101 through 111, inclusive. Any voluntary assignment or transfer of, or contract to assign or transfer, an interest in real or personal property, or written waiver of the right to disclaim the succession to an interest in real or personal property, by any beneficiary, or any sale or other disposition of an interest in real or personal property pursuant to judicial process, made before he has filed a disclaimer, as herein provided, bars the right otherwise hereby conferred on such beneficiary to disclaim as to such interest. |Added by Laws 1973, c. 158, § 6.
84 OK Stat § 84-28 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-28. Spendthrift provisions - Binding effect of disclaimer - Spouse of disclaimant.

|The right to disclaim granted by this act shall exist irrespective of any limitation imposed on the interest of the disclaimant in the nature of an express or implied spendthrift provision or similar restriction. A disclaimer, when filed as provided in this act, or a written waiver of the right to disclaim, shall be binding upon the disclaimant or beneficiary so waiving and all parties thereafter claiming by, through or under him, except that a beneficiary so waiving may thereafter transfer, assign or release his interest if such is not prohibited by an express or implied spendthrift provision. If an interest in real estate is disclaimed and the disclaimer is duly filed in accordance with the provisions of Section 4 of this act, the spouse of the disclaimant, if such spouse has consented to the disclaimer in writing, shall thereupon be automatically debarred from any claim, right or interest in such real estate to which such spouse, except for such disclaimer, would have been entitled. |Added by Laws 1973, c. 158, § 7.
84 OK Stat § 84-29 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-29. Other rights not abridged.

|This act shall not abridge the right of any person, apart from this act, under any existing or future statute or rule of law, to disclaim any interest or to assign, convey, release, renounce or otherwise dispose of any interest. |Added by Laws 1973, c. 158, § 8.
84 OK Stat § 84-30 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-30. Interest not fixed or finally ascertained - Right to disclaim.

|Any interest which exists on the effective date of this act but which has not then become indefeasibly fixed both in quality and quantity, or the taker of which has not then become finally ascertained, may be thereafter disclaimed in the manner provided herein. |Added by Laws 1973, c. 158, § 9.
84 OK Stat § 84-31 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-31. Disclaimer of interest in trust - Conditions.

|An interest in trust may be disclaimed by written instrument signed by the trustee and income beneficiary of the trust, without judicial approval and without liability of the trustee to persons having interest becoming effective after the death of the income beneficiary, but only if the interest disclaimed passes to the descendants of grantor. This provision shall not abridge or limit the right presently existing of a trustee or beneficiary to disclaim interest in trust. |Added by Laws 1982, c. 368, § 3, operative July 1, 1982.
84 OK Stat § 84-41 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-41. Persons who may make a will - Persons subject to guardianship or conservatorship.

|A. Every person over the age of eighteen (18) years of sound mind may, by last will, dispose of all his estate, real and personal, and such estate not disposed of by will is succeeded to as provided in this title, being chargeable in both cases with the payment of all the decedent's debts, as provided in Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |B. The appointment of a guardian or a conservator does not prohibit a person from disposing of his estate, real and personal, by will; provided, that when any person subject to a guardianship or conservatorship shall dispose of such estate by will, such will must be subscribed and acknowledged in the presence of a judge of the district court. The judge before whom the will is subscribed and acknowledged shall attest to the execution of the will but shall have neither the duty nor the authority to approve or disapprove the contents of the will. Subscribing and acknowledging such will before a judge shall not render such will valid if it would otherwise be invalid.R.L. 1910, § 8338; Laws 1982, c. 131, § 1, operative Oct. 1, 1982; Laws 1992, c. 395, § 13, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.
84 OK Stat § 84-42 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-42. Right of married woman.

|A married woman may dispose of all her separate estate by will, without the consent of her husband, and may alter or revoke the will in like manner as if she were single. Her will must be executed and proved in like manner as other wills. |R.L.1910, § 8339.
84 OK Stat § 84-43 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-43. Duress, menace, fraud, or undue influence - Revocation.

|A will or part of a will procured to be made by duress, menace, fraud or undue influence, may be denied probate; and a revocation procured by the same means, may be declared void. |R.L.1910, § 8340.
84 OK Stat § 84-45 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-45. Persons who may take under will - Exception as to corporation.

|A testamentary disposition may be made to any person capable by law of taking the property so disposed of, except that no corporation can take under a will, unless expressly authorized by its charter or by statute so to take. |R.L.1910, § 8342.
84 OK Stat § 84-46 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-46. Nuncupative wills - Requisites.

|To make a nuncupative will valid, and to entitle it to be admitted to probate, the following requisites must be observed: |1. The estate bequeathed must not exceed in value the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).2. It must be proved by two witnesses who were present at the making thereof, one of whom was asked by the testator at the time to bear witness that such was his will, or to that effect.3. The decedent must at the time, have been in actual military service in the field, or doing duty on shipboard at sea, and in either case in actual contemplation, fear or peril of death, or the decedent must have been at the time in expectation of immediate death from an injury received the same day.R.L.1910, § 8343.
84 OK Stat § 84-51 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-51. Nuncupative will need not be in writing.

|A nuncupative will is not required to be in writing, nor to be declared or attested with any formalities. |R.L.1910, § 8344.
84 OK Stat § 84-52 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-52. Mutual will - Revocation.

|A conjoint or mutual will is valid, but it may be revoked by any of the testators in like manner with any other will. |R.L.1910, § 8345.
84 OK Stat § 84-53 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-53. Probate of conditional will.

|A will, the validity of which is made by its own terms conditional, may be denied probate, according to the event, with reference to the condition. |R.L.1910, § 8346.
84 OK Stat § 84-54 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-54. Holographic wills - Requisites.

|A holographic will is one that is entirely written, dated and signed by the hand of the testator himself. It is subject to no other form, and may be made in or out of this State, and need not be witnessed. |R.L.1910, § 8347.
84 OK Stat § 84-56 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-56. Method of witnessing a will.

|A witness to a written will must write, with his name, his place of residence; and a person who subscribed the testator's name, by his direction, must write his own name as a witness to the will. But a violation of this section does not affect the validity of the will. |R.L.1910, § 8349.
84 OK Stat § 84-57 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-57. Codicil, effect of.

|The execution of a codicil referring to a previous will has the effect to republish the will as modified by the codicil. |R.L.1910, § 8350.
84 OK Stat § 84-71 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-71. Law of place governs execution or revocation.

|A will, or a revocation thereof, made out of this state by a person not having his domicile in this state; is as valid when executed according to the law of the place in which the same was made, or in which the testator was at the time domiciled, as if it were made in this state, and according to the provisions of this article. |R.L.1910, § 8351.
84 OK Stat § 84-72 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-72. Law must be followed in execution or revocation.

|No will or revocation is valid unless executed either according to the provisions of this article, or according to the law of the place in which it was made, or in which the testator was at the time domiciled. |R.L.1910, § 8352.
84 OK Stat § 84-73 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-73. Change of domicile does not affect will.

|Whenever a will or a revocation thereof is duly executed according to the law of the place in which the same was made, or in which the testator was at the time domiciled, the same is regulated as to the validity of its execution, by the law of such place, notwithstanding that the testator subsequently changed his domicile to a place, by the law of which such will would be void. |R.L.1910, § 8353.
84 OK Stat § 84-81 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-81. Wills deposited with judge of the district court.

|Every judge of the district court must deposit in his office any will delivered to him for that purpose, and give a written receipt to the depositor; and must enclose such will in a sealed wrapper, so that it cannot be read, and endorse thereon the name of the testator, his residence, and the date of the deposit; and such wrapper must not be opened until its delivery under the provisions of the next section. |R.L.1910, § 8354.
84 OK Stat § 84-82 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-82. Delivery of deposited will.

|A will deposited under the provisions of the last section must be delivered only: |1. To the testator in person.2. Upon his written order, duly proved by the oath of a subscribing witness.3. After his death, to the person, if any, name in the endorsement on the wrapper of the will; or,4. If there is no such endorsement, and if the will was not deposited with the judge of the district court having jurisdiction of its probate, then to the judge of the district court who has jurisdiction.R.L.1910, § 8355.
84 OK Stat § 84-83 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-83. Duty of judge having will on deposit after testator's death.

|The judge of the district court with whom a will is deposited, or to whom it is delivered, must, after the death of the testator, publicly open and examine the will and file in his office, there to remain until duly proved, or to deliver it to the judge of the district court having jurisdiction of its probate. |R.L.1910, § 8356.
84 OK Stat § 84-91 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 84. Wills and Succession|§84-91. Proof of lost or destroyed will

|A lost or destroyed will of real or personal property, or both, may be established in the cases provided by law. |R.L.1910, § 8357.