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58 OK Stat § 58-710 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-710. Attorney appointed by the court, when.

|At or before the hearing of petitions and contests for the probate of wills; for letters testamentary or of the administration; for sales of real estate and confirmation thereof; settlements, partitions and distributions of estates; and all other proceedings where all the parties interested in the estate are required to be notified thereof, the court may, in its discretion, appoint some competent attorney-at-law to represent in all such proceedings the devisees, legatees, heirs, or creditors of the decedent, who are minors and have no general guardian in the county, or who are nonresidents of the state, and those interested, who, though they are neither such minors or nonresidents, are unrepresented. The order must specify the names of the parties for whom the attorney is appointed, who is thereby authorized to represent such parties in all such proceedings had subsequent to his appointment. The attorney may receive a fee to be fixed by the court for his services, which must be paid out of the funds of the estate as necessary expenses of administration, and upon distribution may be charged to the party represented by the attorney. If for any cause it becomes necessary, the district court may substitute another attorney for the one first appointed, in which case the fee must be proportionately divided. The nonappointment of an attorney will not affect the validity of any of the proceedings. |Amended by Laws 1989, c. 94, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989.
58 OK Stat § 58-711 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-711. Recording of judgment or decree or notice of judgment or decree relating to real property.

|When a judgment or decree is made, setting apart and defining the homestead, confirming a sale, making distribution of real property, or determining any other matter affecting the title to real property, a certified copy of the same must be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the real property is situated. A certified copy of any such judgment or decree may be made by the court clerk as to real property in any one county without including therein the description of lands located in any other county, such certificate reciting that the same is a true copy of such instrument insofar as the same relates to real property in such county. Instead of filing the judgment or decree in the office of the county clerk where the real property described in the judgment or decree is located, a notice of the judgment or decree may be filed in the office of the county clerk of any county where the real property described in the judgment or decree is located. The notice shall provide the name of the decedent in the probate proceeding, the court, case number, the date that the judgment or decree was entered, a legal description of the real property located in the county where the notice is to be filed without including the description of real property located in any other county, and the name and address of the party or parties holding title to such real property as set forth in the judgment or decree. |R.L. 1910, § 6499. Amended by Laws 1953, p. 243, § 58; Laws 1998, c. 359, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.
58 OK Stat § 58-712 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-712. Revocation of letters for contumacy.

|Whenever an executor, administrator, or guardian is committed for contempt, in disobeying any lawful order of the district court or the judge thereof, and has remained in custody for thirty (30) days without obeying such order or purging himself otherwise of the contempt, the district court may, by order reciting the facts, and without further showing or notice, revoke his letters and appoint some other person, entitled thereto, executor, administrator or guardian in his stead. |R.L.1910, § 6500.
58 OK Stat § 58-713 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-713. Proof of death of person in military, naval or maritime service - Time for distribution.

|In all proceedings brought for the administration of the estate of any person who dies intestate, or for the probate of the will of any person who shall die testate, or for the adjudication of the fact of the death of any life tenant or joint tenant of real estate, where such person shall have been in the military, naval or maritime service of the United States at the time of death, the official notice of death issued by or received from the United States Government or any department thereof, shall be admissible in evidence in such proceedings, and shall be prima facie evidence of the fact of death. Provided, however, that no decree distributing the estate of such deceased person in either administration proceedings or under the provisions of any will of such decedent, shall be entered until a period of two (2) years shall elapse from the reported death of such decedent. |Laws 1945, p. 188, § 1.
58 OK Stat § 58-714 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-714. Joinder of proceedings relating to different estates.

|Proceedings for probate of wills of two or more deceased persons may be joined and united in one proceeding, and proceedings for administration of estates of two or more deceased persons who died intestate may be joined and united in one proceeding, and proceedings for probate of wills of one or more deceased persons and proceedings for the administration of estates of one or more deceased persons who died intestate may be joined and united in one proceeding, (a) where the estate or estates left by one or more of such deceased persons or some part thereof, has been or is to be received from another of such deceased persons, immediately or remotely, either by will or intestate succession, and no probate or administration proceedings have been had or commenced upon the estate of any of such deceased persons, and/or (b) where two or more deceased persons died seized of undivided interests in property, real or personal, as tenants in common or otherwise, and no probate or administration proceedings have been had or commenced on the estate of either or any of them, and one or more of the heirs, devisees or legatees of such deceased persons are the same; and the court may grant letters testamentary and/or letters of administration, as the case may be, upon such estates and they may be administered in one proceeding; provided, that, in all cases herein mentioned the court granting such letters has jurisdiction of each of the proceedings so united. |Laws 1945, p. 190, § 1.
58 OK Stat § 58-715 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-715. Setting out or disclosing facts.

|In all cases in which proceedings for probate or administration are joined or united as provided in this act, the proceedings shall set out or disclose all facts as to each separate estate that would be required if such proceedings were separately conducted. |Laws 1945, p. 190, § 2.
58 OK Stat § 58-716 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-716. Orders fixing date of hearing and notice thereof - Signing.

|Whenever the probate code requires that an order setting date of hearing and giving notice thereof be signed by a judge, the chief judge in the county may by judicial order provide that such order or notice may be signed by the court clerk or his deputy affixing his signature beneath the place where the judge's name appears followed with the word "by;" and then followed with the signing officer's title. Where both an order and notice as to any particular act provided for in this title are required, allowed, or authorized by law or by order of the court, said order and notice may be combined in one document. |Laws 1973, c. 45, § 1, emerg. eff. April 27, 1973.
58 OK Stat § 58-717 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-717. Computation of time.

|The time within which an act is to be done, as provided for in Title 58 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day. If the last day is a legal holiday as defined by Section 82.1 of Title 25 of the Oklahoma Statutes, it shall be excluded. The provisions of this section are hereby declared to be a clarification of the law as it existed prior to the effective date of this act and shall not be considered or construed to be a change of the law as it existed prior to the effective date of this act. Any action or proceeding arising under Title 58 of the Oklahoma Statutes prior to the effective date of this act for which a determination of the period of time prescribed by this section is in question or has been in question due to the enactment of Section 20, Chapter 293, O.S.L. 1999, shall be governed by the method for computation of time as prescribed by this section. |Added by Laws 2000, c. 260, § 5, emerg. eff. June 1, 2000.
58 OK Stat § 58-718.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-718.1. Proceedings for appointment of executor or administrator - Notice to creditors.

|From and after the effective date of this act the court clerk shall when requested by any interested party or his attorney be required to record all petitions for probate of wills or for the appointment of administrators, all notices, proofs of publication or of mailing or posting, all orders in connection with said proceedings and all other papers from the filing of the petition aforesaid to the appointment and qualification of any executor or executors, or administrator or administrators, as well as notices to creditors, with proof of publication and proof of posting and estate tax receipts or exemption certificates. |Laws 1949, p. 386, § 1.
58 OK Stat § 58-718.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-718.2. Accounting and distribution.

|Said clerk shall when properly requested so to do likewise be required to record all final accounts and petitions for distribution, all notices, proofs of publication or of posting thereof, and any petition for partial distribution and notices, together with proofs of posting and publication thereof, and all orders of distribution, either on petition for general or partial distribution of said estate. |Laws 1949, p. 386, § 2.
58 OK Stat § 58-718.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-718.3. Other papers, pleadings, and orders.

|He shall also record any other papers, pleadings and orders which the court shall order recorded. |Laws 1949, p. 386, § 3; Laws 1953, p. 244, § 59.
58 OK Stat § 58-718.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-718.4. Certified copies as evidence.

|Any certified copy of any of the papers and pleadings mentioned above shall be received in evidence in all instances where the original would be admissible. |Laws 1949, p. 387, § 4; Laws 1953, p. 244, § 60.
58 OK Stat § 58-719.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-719.1. Service of notices on Governor and Attorney General.

|In all proceedings for the administration of estates of deceased persons, or for the probate, or interpretation, of wills of deceased persons, in all courts of this state, wherein it appears from the petition for admission of a will to probate, or from the petition or other pleading asking for the interpretation of a last will and testament, that the State of Oklahoma is named as a beneficiary in such will, or wherein it appears from the petition for appointment of administrator, or otherwise, that an intestate left no spouse or kindred surviving, or that it is not known whether or not the intestate left a spouse or kindred surviving or that the names and whereabouts of the spouse or kindred, if any, of the intestate are unknown, or wherein it otherwise appears that the State of Oklahoma is, or may be, entitled to share in the distribution of the estate of the decedent, any and all notices provided for by statute to be served, personally, or by mail, upon persons or parties interested in the estate shall be served upon the State of Oklahoma by mailing true and correct copies of such notice, by registered mail, postage prepaid, to the Governor of the State of Oklahoma, and to the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, Capitol Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and, where the jurisdiction of the court to enter a judgment, order or decree in such cases depends upon the giving of proper notice to all persons or parties interested in an estate, such jurisdiction shall not vest in any such court, as to the State of Oklahoma, unless and until the notice provided by law has been given to the State of Oklahoma in the manner prescribed herein. If the notice provided for herein be given in the manner prescribed herein, the jurisdiction of the court, as to the State of Oklahoma as a party entitled to share, or possibly entitled to share, in the distribution of the estate of the decedent, shall be the same as it is as to other persons or parties entitled to share, or possibly entitled to share, in the distribution of such estate, when properly served with notice required by law. |Laws 1953, p. 249, § 1.
58 OK Stat § 58-719.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-719.2. Consent by Governor to sale of property of estate.

|In any proceeding for the administration of the estate of a deceased person, whether testate or intestate, wherein it appears that the State of Oklahoma is, or may be, entitled to share in the distribution of such estate, the Governor of the State of Oklahoma is hereby authorized and empowered, in his sole discretion, to object, or to consent, upon behalf of the State of Oklahoma as such interested party, to the sale of any real or personal property belonging to such estate. |Laws 1953, p. 250, § 2.
58 OK Stat § 58-721 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-721. Appealable judgments and orders of district court.

|An appeal may be taken from the following judgments or orders of the district court: |1. Granting, or refusing, or revoking letters testamentary or of administration, or of guardianship, or conservatorship;2. Admitting, or refusing to admit, a will to probate;3. Against or in favor of the validity of a will or revoking the probate thereof;4. Against or in favor of setting apart property, or making an allowance for a widow or child;5. Against or in favor of directing the partition, sale or conveyance of real property;6. Settling an account of an executor, or administrator or guardian;7. Refusing, allowing or directing the distribution or partition of an estate, or any part thereof or the payment of a debt, claim, legacy or distributive share;8. Refusing or allowing the release of estate tax liability;9. An order determining liability for estate taxes made pursuant to Section 268 of this title; or10. From any other judgment, decree or order of the court in a probate cause, or of the judge thereof, affecting a substantial right.R.L.1910, § 6501; Laws 1968, c. 413, § 1, eff. Jan. 13, 1969; Laws 1980, c. 286, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1980; Laws 1991, c. 148, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
58 OK Stat § 58-722 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-722. Party in default may not appeal.

|Any party aggrieved may appeal as aforesaid, except where the decree or order of which he complains, was rendered or made upon his default. |R.L.1910, § 6502.
58 OK Stat § 58-723 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-723. Vacation of judgment.

|A person interested in the estate or funds affected by the decree or order, who was not a party to the special proceeding in which it was made, but who was entitled by law to be heard therein, upon his application, or who has acquired, since the decree or order was made, a right or interest which would have entitled him to be heard, if it had been previously acquired, may move to reopen the judgment within thirty (30) days from the date of the decree or order. The facts which entitle such person to vacate the judgment must be shown by an affidavit which must be filed with the motion to vacate. |R.L.1910, § 6503; Laws 1953, p. 244, § 61; Laws 1968, c. 413, § 2, eff. Jan. 13, 1969.
58 OK Stat § 58-724 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-724. Probate appeals taken as appeals in other cases.

|An appeal in a probate proceeding must be taken as appeals in other cases in the district court. |R.L.1910, § 6504; Laws 1968, c. 413, § 3; Laws 1969, c. 302, § 26, eff. Jan. 1, 1970.
58 OK Stat § 58-731 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-731. Appeal does not stay issue of letters.

|An appeal from the decree or order admitting a will to probate, or granting letters testamentary, or letters of administration, does not stay the issuing of letters where, in the opinion of the judge, manifested by an entry upon the minutes of the court, the preservation of the estate requires that such letters should issue. But the letters so issued do not confer power to sell real property by virtue of any provision in the will, or to pay or satisfy legacies or to distribute the property of the decedent among the next of kin, until the final determination of the appeal. |R.L.1910, § 6511; Laws 1968, c. 413, § 5, eff. Jan. 13, 1969.
58 OK Stat § 58-732 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-732. Appeal does not stay order revoking letters, etc.

|An appeal from a decree or order revoking probate of a will, letters testamentary, letters of administration or letters of guardianship, or from a decree or order suspending or removing an executor, administrator or guardian, or removing or suspending a testamentary trustee or a person appointed by the judge, or appointing an appraiser of personal property, does not stay the execution of the decree or order appealed from. |R.L.1910, § 6512; Laws 1968, c. 413, § 6, eff. Jan. 13, 1969.
58 OK Stat § 58-741 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-741. Reversal for error does not affect lawful acts.

|When the order or decree appointing an executor, or administrator, or guardian, is reversed on appeal for error, and not for want of jurisdiction of the court, all lawful acts in administration upon the estate, performed by such executor, or administrator or guardian, if he have qualified, are as valid as if such order or decree had been affirmed. |R.L.1910, § 6521.
58 OK Stat § 58-901 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-901. District courts may approve deeds.

|Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the district courts of this state to approve the deeds of adult full-blood Indians conveying their inherited lands as now provided by the laws of the United States. |Laws 1915, c. 198, § 1.
58 OK Stat § 58-902 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-902. Petition for approval - Requirements.

|All petitions for the approval of deeds to lands inherited by full-blood Indian heirs shall be verified by one or more grantors, and shall contain the following information: |The names of all grantors and grantees.The description of the land to be conveyed.The character and extent of the interest to be conveyed.The roll number and quantum of blood of the grantor and decedent.The permanent residence of the decedent at the time of death.The relationship of each grantor to the decedent and the names and relationship to the decedent of each heir who is not a grantor.Laws 1915, c. 198, § 2.
58 OK Stat § 58-903 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-903. Hearings in district court - Terms of sale.

|The district court shall establish a date upon which all petitions for the approval of deeds to lands inherited by full-blood Indians shall be heard which date shall be at least twice per month. At a hearing the court shall take the testimony of disinterested parties to establish the value of the lands to be conveyed, and may in its discretion call in any United States probate attorney as counsel for grantor. The attendance of the grantor or any other person to testify in such matters may be required in like manner as if his testimony were to be heard in a civil action. The court may decline to approve any deed when in his judgment the price is not commensurate with his fair judgment and the grantor is not an heir of deceased. Provided, the district court may authorize the sale and conveyance of any such land for cash or one-fourth (1/4) cash and the balance in yearly payments of one-fourth (1/4) each, with interest on such deferred payments at the rate of not less than six percent (6%) per annum; Provided further, that in all sales upon deferred payments such payments shall be secured by first mortgage upon the lands conveyed. |Laws 1915, c. 198, § 3.
58 OK Stat § 58-905 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-905. This law exclusive - Repeal of conflicting laws - Court rules.

|The provisions of this act shall constitute the exclusive law governing the procedure relative to the conveyance of inherited lands by adult full-blood Indian heirs. All provisions of law heretofore enacted in conflict herewith are hereby repealed and set aside, and no court shall have the power to promulgate or enforce any rules in conflict with this act. |Laws 1915, c. 198, § 5.
58 OK Stat § 58-912.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-912.1. Forms.

|The court administrator shall prepare forms for parties using the procedure under this act, which forms shall be reviewed and approved by the Supreme Court and thereafter distributed to all county clerks by the court administrator. |Added by Laws 1983, c. 20, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1983.
58 OK Stat § 58-924 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 58. Probate Procedure|§58-924. Oil, gas and mineral leases by executors and administrators or guardians - Proceeding in district court - Petition.

|Administrators and executors of estates of deceased persons and guardians of the estates of minors and incompetent persons are hereby authorized to sell and execute oil and gas or other mining leases upon the lands belonging to the estates of said deceased persons, or of said minors or incompetent persons, for a term not to exceed ten (10) years and as long thereafter as oil, gas or other minerals may be produced in paying quantities, upon compliance with this act, and the district court in which said guardianship or administration proceedings are pending shall have jurisdiction to order said sale upon the filing of a petition therein alleging that the estate of said deceased person or the estate of said minor or incompetent ward is the owner of the lands which shall be described in said petition, and that the same have a probable value for oil and gas mining purposes, and that the estate of said deceased person or of said ward is not financially able or that it is impractical for said estate to explore said land for oil and gas, and that it is to the best interest of the estate to lease said lands at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, which petition shall be verified by said administrator, executor or guardian, and if it involves lands belonging to the estates of deceased persons, the petition shall set forth the names and post office addresses of the heirs of such deceased persons. If the will of any such deceased person empowers the executor to sell oil and gas or other mineral leases upon the lands of the testator, it shall not be necessary for the executor, or the administrator with the will annexed, to comply with this act, but in such case the sale and execution of the lease shall be deemed to be a sale of property and subject to Section 1299 of Oklahoma Statutes, 1931. The word "land" or "lands" as used herein, includes any oil, gas or other mineral rights or interests in lands which may be leaseable. |Laws 1937, p. 4, § 1.