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MI Comp L § 700.2514 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-5 - Part 5 Wills, Will Contracts, and Custody and Deposit of Wills (700.2501...700.2519)|Section 700.2514 - Contracts Concerning Succession.

700.2514 Contracts concerning succession. Sec. 2514.  (1) If executed after July 1, 1979, a contract to make a will or devise, not to revoke a will or devise, or to die intestate may be established only by 1 or more of the following:  (a) Provisions of a will stating material provisions of the contract.  (b) An express reference in a will to a contract and extrinsic evidence proving the terms of the contract.  (c) A writing signed by the decedent evidencing the contract.  (2) The execution of a joint will or mutual wills does not create a presumption of a contract not to revoke the will or wills. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2515 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-5 - Part 5 Wills, Will Contracts, and Custody and Deposit of Wills (700.2501...700.2519)|Section 700.2515 - Deposit of Will With Court in Testator's Lifetime.

700.2515 Deposit of will with court in testator's lifetime. Sec. 2515.  (1) A will in writing that is enclosed in a sealed wrapper, on which is endorsed the testator's name, place of residence, and social security number or state of Michigan driver's license number, if any, and the day on which and the name of the person by whom it is delivered, may be deposited by the individual making the will, or by a person for him or her, with the court in the county where the testator resides. The court shall receive and safely keep the will and give a certificate of the deposit of the will. For this service, the court shall charge and collect a fee as provided by supreme court rule or the revised judicature act of 1961.  (2) During the lifetime of the testator, the will shall be delivered only to the testator, or to some person authorized by the testator in writing that is duly proved by the oath of a subscribing witness. After the death of the testator and at the first session of the court after the court receives notice of the testator's death, the will shall be publicly opened and retained by the court.  (3) After the death of the testator, if jurisdiction of the will for probate belongs to a court in another county, upon request of the personal representative named in the will or another person interested in its provisions, the will shall be forwarded by registered mail to the other court or delivered to the personal representative, or to some other person interested in the provisions of the will, to be presented for probate in the other court. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2516 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-5 - Part 5 Wills, Will Contracts, and Custody and Deposit of Wills (700.2501...700.2519)|Section 700.2516 - Delivery of Will or Codicil by Custodian.

700.2516 Delivery of will or codicil by custodian. Sec. 2516.  A custodian of a will or codicil or person having possession or care of a will or codicil shall forward it to the court having jurisdiction with reasonable promptness after the death of the testator either by delivering it personally or by sending it properly addressed by registered mail. A person who neglects to perform this duty without reasonable cause is liable for damages that are sustained by the neglect. A person who willfully refuses or fails to deliver a will or codicil after being ordered by the court in a proceeding brought for the purpose of compelling delivery is guilty of contempt of court and subject to the penalty for contempt. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2518 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-5 - Part 5 Wills, Will Contracts, and Custody and Deposit of Wills (700.2501...700.2519)|Section 700.2518 - Penalty Clause for Contest.

700.2518 Penalty clause for contest. Sec. 2518.  A provision in a will purporting to penalize an interested person for contesting the will or instituting other proceedings relating to the estate is unenforceable if probable cause exists for instituting proceedings. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2601 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-6 - Part 6 Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills (700.2601...700.2608)|Section 700.2601 - Definitions.

700.2601 Definitions. Sec. 2601.  As used in this part:  (a) "Alternative devise" means a devise that is expressly created by the will and, under the terms of the will, can take effect instead of another devise on the happening of 1 or more events, including survival of the testator or failure to survive the testator, whether an event is expressed in condition-precedent, condition-subsequent, or another form. A residuary clause constitutes an alternative devise with respect to a nonresiduary devise only if the will specifically provides that, upon lapse or failure, the nonresiduary devise or nonresiduary devises in general pass under the residuary clause.  (b) "Class member" includes, but is not limited to, an individual who fails to survive the testator but who would have taken under a devise in the form of a class gift had he or she survived the testator.  (c) "Devise" includes, but is not limited to, an alternative devise, a devise in the form of a class gift, and an exercise of a power of appointment.  (d) "Devisee" includes, but is not limited to, the following:  (i) A class member if the devise is in the form of a class gift.  (ii) The beneficiary of a trust, but not the trustee.  (iii) An individual or class member who was deceased at the time the testator executed his or her will or an individual or class member who was living at that time, but fails to survive the testator.  (iv) An appointee under a power of appointment exercised by the testator's will.  (e) "Stepchild" means a child of the surviving, deceased, or former spouse of the testator or of the donor of a power of appointment, who is not the testator's or donor's child.  (f) "Surviving devisee" or "surviving descendant" means a devisee or a descendant who neither predeceased the testator nor is considered to have predeceased the testator under section 2702.  (g) "Testator" includes the donee of a power of appointment if the power is exercised in the testator's will. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2602 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-6 - Part 6 Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills (700.2601...700.2608)|Section 700.2602 - Scope; Passage of Property and After-Acquired Property.

700.2602 Scope; passage of property and after-acquired property. Sec. 2602.  (1) In the absence of a finding of a contrary intention, the rules of construction in this part control the construction of a will.  (2) A will may provide for the passage of all property that the testator owns at death and all property acquired by the estate after the testator's death. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2604 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-6 - Part 6 Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills (700.2601...700.2608)|Section 700.2604 - Failure of Testamentary Provision.

700.2604 Failure of testamentary provision. Sec. 2604.  (1) Except as provided in section 2603, a devise, other than a residuary devise, that fails for any reason becomes a part of the residue.  (2) Except as provided in section 2603, if the residue is devised to 2 or more persons, the share of a residuary devisee that fails for any reason passes to the other residuary devisee or to other residuary devisees in proportion to the interest of each in the remaining part of the residue. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2605 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-6 - Part 6 Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills (700.2601...700.2608)|Section 700.2605 - Increase in Securities; Accessions.

700.2605 Increase in securities; accessions. Sec. 2605.  (1) If a testator executes a will that devises securities and the testator then owns securities that meet the description in the will, the devise includes additional securities owned by the testator at death to the extent the additional securities are acquired by the testator after the will was executed as a result of the testator's ownership of the described securities and are securities of any of the following types:  (a) Securities of the same organization acquired by reason of action initiated by the organization or any successor, related, or acquiring organization, excluding any acquired by exercise of purchase options.  (b) Securities of another organization acquired as a result of a merger, consolidation, reorganization, or other distribution by the organization or any successor, related, or acquiring organization.  (c) Securities of the same organization acquired as a result of a plan of reinvestment.  (2) Distributions in cash before death with respect to a described security are not part of the devise. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2607 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-6 - Part 6 Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills (700.2601...700.2608)|Section 700.2607 - Nonexoneration.

700.2607 Nonexoneration. Sec. 2607.  A specific devise and a transfer under an exercise of a power of appointment that is equivalent to a specific devise, including the exercise of a right to withdraw specific property, passes subject to any mortgage or other security interest existing on the date of death, without right of exoneration, regardless of a general directive in the will to pay debts. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2608 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-6 - Part 6 Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills (700.2601...700.2608)|Section 700.2608 - Ademption by Satisfaction.

700.2608 Ademption by satisfaction. Sec. 2608.  (1) Property a testator gave in his or her lifetime to a person is treated as a satisfaction of a devise in whole or in part only if any of the following are true:  (a) The will provides for a deduction of the gift.  (b) The testator declared in a contemporaneous writing that the gift is in satisfaction of the devise or that its value is to be deducted from the value of the devise.  (c) The devisee acknowledges in writing that the gift is in satisfaction of the devise or that its value is to be deducted from the value of the devise.  (2) For purposes of partial satisfaction, property given during the testator's lifetime is valued as of the time the devisee came into possession or enjoyment of the property or at the testator's death, whichever occurs first.  (3) If the devisee fails to survive the testator, the gift is treated as a full or partial satisfaction of the devise, as appropriate, in applying sections 2603 and 2604, unless the testator's contemporaneous writing provides otherwise. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2701 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-7 - Part 7 Rules of Construction Applicable to Donative Dispositions in Wills and Other Governing Instruments (700.2701...700.2723)|Section 700.2701 - Scope.

700.2701 Scope. Sec. 2701.  In the absence of a finding of a contrary intention, the rules of construction in this part control the construction of a governing instrument. The rules of construction in this part apply to a governing instrument unless the application of a particular section is limited by its terms to a specific type of provision or governing instrument. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2704 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-7 - Part 7 Rules of Construction Applicable to Donative Dispositions in Wills and Other Governing Instruments (700.2701...700.2723)|Section 700.2704 - Protection of Bona Fide Purchasers; Personal Liability of Recipient.

700.2704 Protection of bona fide purchasers; personal liability of recipient. Sec. 2704.  (1) Section 2702 does not obligate a person who purchases property for value and without notice, or who receives a payment or other item of property in partial or full satisfaction of a legally enforceable obligation, to return the payment, item of property, or benefit and does not make such a person liable for the amount of the payment or the value of the item of property or benefit. However, a person who, not for value, receives a payment, item of property, or another benefit to which the person is not entitled under section 2702 is obligated to return the payment, item of property, or benefit or is personally liable for the amount of the payment, or the value of the item of property or benefit, to the person who is entitled to it under section 2702.  (2) If section 2702 or any part of that section is preempted by federal law with respect to a payment, an item of property, or another benefit covered by section 2702, a person who, not for value, receives the payment, item of property, or another benefit to which the person is not entitled under section 2702 is obligated to return the payment, item of property, or benefit or is personally liable for the amount of the payment, or the value of the item of property or benefit, to the person who would have been entitled to it if section 2702 or part of that section were not preempted. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2705 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-7 - Part 7 Rules of Construction Applicable to Donative Dispositions in Wills and Other Governing Instruments (700.2701...700.2723)|Section 700.2705 - Choice of Law as to Meaning and Effect of Governing Instrument.

700.2705 Choice of law as to meaning and effect of governing instrument.Sec. 2705.  The meaning and legal effect of a governing instrument other than a trust are determined by the local law of the state selected in the governing instrument, unless the application of that law is contrary to the provisions relating to the elective share described in part 2 of this article, the provisions relating to exempt property and allowances described in part 4 of this article, or another public policy of this state otherwise applicable to the disposition. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2009, Act 46, Eff. Apr. 1, 2010 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2706 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-7 - Part 7 Rules of Construction Applicable to Donative Dispositions in Wills and Other Governing Instruments (700.2701...700.2723)|Section 700.2706 - Power of Appointment; Meaning of Specific Reference Requirement.

700.2706 Power of appointment; meaning of specific reference requirement. Sec. 2706.  If a governing instrument creating a power of appointment expressly requires that the power be exercised by a reference, an express reference, or a specific reference to the power or its source, it is presumed that the donor's intention, in requiring that the donee exercise the power by making reference to the particular power or to the creating instrument, was to prevent an inadvertent exercise of the power. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2707 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-7 - Part 7 Rules of Construction Applicable to Donative Dispositions in Wills and Other Governing Instruments (700.2701...700.2723)|Section 700.2707 - Class Gifts Construed to Accord With Intestate Succession.

700.2707 Class gifts construed to accord with intestate succession. Sec. 2707.  (1) An adopted individual or an individual born out of wedlock, and his or her respective descendants if appropriate to the class, are included in class gifts and other terms of relationship in accordance with the rules for intestate succession. Terms of relationship that do not differentiate relationships by blood from those by affinity, such as "uncles", "aunts", "nieces", or "nephews", are construed to exclude relatives by affinity. Terms of relationship that do not differentiate relationships by the half blood from those by the whole blood, such as "brothers", "sisters", "nieces", or "nephews", are construed to include both types of relationships.  (2) In addition to the requirements of subsection (1), in construing a dispositive provision of a transferor who is not a natural parent, an individual born to the natural parent is not considered the child of that parent unless the individual lived while a minor as a regular member of the household of that natural parent or of that natural parent's parent, brother, sister, spouse, or surviving spouse.  (3) In addition to the requirements of subsection (1), in construing a dispositive provision of a transferor who is not an adopting parent, an adopted individual is not considered the child of the adopting parent unless the adopted individual lived while a minor, either before or after the adoption, as a regular member of the household of the adopting parent. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2708 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)|386-1998-II-7 - Part 7 Rules of Construction Applicable to Donative Dispositions in Wills and Other Governing Instruments (700.2701...700.2723)|Section 700.2708 - Definitions Regarding Beneficiary Designation.

700.2708 Definitions regarding beneficiary designation. Sec. 2708.  As used in this section and sections 2709 to 2712:  (a) "Alternative beneficiary designation" means a beneficiary designation that is expressly created by the governing instrument and, under the terms of the governing instrument, can take effect instead of another beneficiary designation on the happening of 1 or more events, including survival of the decedent or failure to survive the decedent, whether an event is expressed in condition-precedent, condition-subsequent, or another form.  (b) "Beneficiary" means the beneficiary of a beneficiary designation under which the beneficiary must survive the decedent. Beneficiary includes a class member if the beneficiary designation is in the form of a class gift; an individual or class member who was deceased at the time the beneficiary designation was executed; and an individual or class member who was then living but who failed to survive the decedent. Beneficiary excludes a joint tenant of a joint tenancy with the right of survivorship and a party to a joint and survivorship account.  (c) "Beneficiary designation" includes an alternative beneficiary designation and a beneficiary designation in the form of a class gift.  (d) "Class member" includes an individual who fails to survive the decedent, but who would have taken under a beneficiary designation in the form of a class gift had he or she survived the decedent.  (e) "Stepchild" means a child of the decedent's surviving, deceased, or former spouse, and not of the decedent.  (f) "Surviving beneficiary" or "surviving descendant" means a beneficiary or a descendant who did not predecease the decedent and is not considered to have predeceased the decedent under section 2702. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC