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KS Stat § 59-403 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 4 - Homestead And Family Allowances|59-403 Allowance to spouse and minor children.

59-403. Allowance to spouse and minor children. When a resident of the state dies, testate or intestate, the surviving spouse shall be allowed, for the benefit of such spouse and the decedent's minor children during the period of their minority, from the personal or real property of which the decedent was possessed or to which the decedent was entitled at the time of death, the following:(a) The wearing apparel, family library, pictures, musical instruments, furniture and household goods, utensils and implements used in the home, one automobile, and provisions and fuel on hand necessary for the support of the spouse and minor children for one year.(b) A reasonable allowance of not more than $50,000 in money or other personal or real property at its appraised value in full or part payment thereof, with the exact amount of such allowance to be determined and ordered by the court, after taking into account the condition of the estate of the decedent.The property shall not be liable for the payment of any of decedent's debts or other demands against the decedent's estate, except liens thereon existing at the time of the decedent's death. If there are no minor children, the property shall belong to the spouse; if there are minor children and no spouse, it shall belong to the minor children. The selection shall be made by the spouse, if living, otherwise by the guardian of the minor children. In case any of the decedent's minor children are not living with the surviving spouse, the court may make such division as the court deems equitable.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 21; L. 1941, ch. 284, § 1; L. 1965, ch. 352, § 1; L. 1967, ch. 313, § 1; L. 1975, ch. 299, § 2; L. 1989, ch. 173, § 1; L. 1991, ch. 166, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 132, § 18; L. 2000, ch. 25, § 1; L. 2008, ch. 14, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-404 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 4 - Homestead And Family Allowances|59-404 Effect of election to take under will by spouse.

59-404. Effect of election to take under will by spouse. The surviving spouse, by electing to take under the will of the decedent or by consenting thereto, does not waive the homestead right nor the right to such allowance, unless it clearly appears from the will that the provision therein made for such spouse was intended to be in lieu of such rights.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 22; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-501 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-501 Definitions.

59-501. Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 59-502 through 59-514, inclusive:(a) "Children" means biological children, including a posthumous child; children adopted as provided by law; and children whose parentage is or has been determined under the Kansas parentage act or prior law.(b) "Issue" includes adopted children of deceased children or issue.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 23; L. 1985, ch. 114, § 25; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-502 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-502 Descent of property of intestate resident.

59-502. Descent of property of intestate resident. Subject to any homestead rights, the allowances provided in K.S.A. 59-403, and the payment of reasonable funeral expenses, expenses of last sickness and costs of administration, taxes, and debts, the property of a resident decedent, who dies intestate, shall at the time of death pass by intestate succession as provided in this article.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 24; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-504 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-504 Surviving spouse.

59-504. Surviving spouse. If the decedent leaves a spouse and no children nor issue of a previously deceased child, all the decedent's property shall pass to the surviving spouse. If the decedent leaves a spouse and a child, or children, or issue of a previously deceased child or children, one-half of such property shall pass to the surviving spouse.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 26; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-505 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-505 Same; half of realty to surviving spouse.

59-505. Same; half of realty to surviving spouse. Except as provided further, the surviving spouse shall be entitled to receive one-half of all real estate of which the decedent at any time during the marriage was seized or possessed and to the disposition whereof the survivor shall not have consented in writing, or by a will, or by an election as provided by law to take under a will, except such real estate as has been sold on execution or judicial sale, or taken by other legal proceeding. The surviving spouse shall not be entitled to any interest under the provisions of this section in any real estate of which such decedent in such decedent's lifetime made a conveyance, when such spouse at the time of the conveyance was not a resident of this state and never had been during the existence of the marriage relation. The spouse's entitlement under this section shall be included as part of the surviving spouse's property under K.S.A. 59-6a207, and amendments thereto.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 27; L. 1996, ch. 53, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-506 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-506 Surviving children or issue.

59-506. Surviving children or issue. If the decedent leaves a child, or children, or issue of a previously deceased child or children, and no spouse, all his or her property shall pass to the surviving child, or in equal shares to the surviving children and the living issue, if any, of a previously deceased child, but such issue shall collectively take only the share their parent would have taken had such parent been living. If the decedent leaves such child, children, or issue, and a spouse, one-half of such property shall pass to such child, children, and issue as aforesaid.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 28; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-507 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-507 No spouse, child or issue, of the decedent.

59-507. No spouse, child or issue, of the decedent. If the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, child, or issue, but leaves a surviving parent or surviving parents, all of his or her property shall pass to such surviving parent, or in equal shares to such surviving parents, but if the decedent is an adopted child such property shall pass to his or her adoptive parent or parents in like manner including a natural parent who is the spouse of an adoptive parent.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 29; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-508 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-508 No spouse, child, issue, or parents.

59-508. No spouse, child, issue, or parents. If the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, child, issue, or parents, the respective shares of his or her property which would have passed to the parents, had both of them been living, shall pass to the heirs of such parents respectively (excluding their respective spouses), the same as it would have passed had such parents owned it in equal shares and died intestate at the time of his or her death; but if either of said parents left no such heirs, then and in that event his or her property shall pass to the living heirs of the other parent.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 30; L. 1949, ch. 310, § 1; April 15.
KS Stat § 59-509 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-509 Limitation on descent.

59-509. Limitation on descent. In computing degrees of relationship by blood for the purpose of the passing of property of an intestate decedent, each generation in the ascending or descending line shall be counted as one degree. None of such property shall pass except by lineal descent to a person further removed from the decedent than the sixth degree, as so computed. In all cases of intestate succession the right of a living person to have the property, or a share of it, pass to him or her, shall be determined as here provided, but the property shall pass immediately from the decedent to the person entitled to receive it.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 31; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-510 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-510 Advancements.

59-510. Advancements. Property which has been given by an intestate decedent by way of an advancement to one to whom the decedent's property, or a part of it, would pass by intestate succession, shall be counted as a part of the distributive share of such property to such person, and to that extent shall be taken into account in determining the estate to be distributed among those to whom it passes by intestate succession, but if such advancement exceeds the amount to which such person would be entitled by the laws of intestate succession the person shall not be required to refund any portion of the advancement. If such person receiving an advancement dies before the decedent, leaving heirs who take from the decedent, the advancement shall be allowed in like manner as if it had been made directly to them.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 32; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-513 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-513 Incapacity of one who kills another to take from decedent's estate or property; effect of suicide by one who kills spouse on estates and property of both.

59-513. Incapacity of one who kills another to take from decedent's estate or property; effect of suicide by one who kills spouse on estates and property of both. No person convicted of feloniously killing, or procuring the killing of, another person shall inherit or take by will by intestate succession, as a surviving joint tenant, as a beneficiary under a trust or otherwise from such other person any portion of the estate or property in which the decedent had an interest. When any person kills or causes the killing of such person's spouse, and then takes such person's own life, the estates and property of both persons shall be disposed of as if their deaths were simultaneous pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 58-708 to 58-718, inclusive, and amendments thereto.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 35; L. 1970, ch. 225, § 1; L. 1995, ch. 105, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-514 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 5 - Intestate Succession|59-514 Intestate descent; escheat, when.

59-514. Intestate descent; escheat, when. If an intestate decedent leaves no person entitled to receive property of the decedent as said intestate's heir under the provisions of K.S.A. 59-503 to 59-513, both sections inclusive, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, then and in that event said intestate's property shall pass to the living heirs of the intestate's last spouse dying prior to the death of the intestate and if there be no such heir or heirs, then the estate shall escheat to and become the property of the state.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 36; L. 1963, ch. 298, § 1; June 30.
KS Stat § 59-601 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-601 Who may make will.

59-601. Who may make will. Any person of sound mind, and possessing the rights of majority, may dispose of any or all of his or her property by will, subject to the provisions of this act.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 37; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-602 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-602 Limitation on testamentary power.

59-602. Limitation on testamentary power. Any devise or other disposition of real estate located in this state taking effect in possession or enjoyment at death, and any bequest or other disposition of any personal property by a resident of this state taking effect in possession or enjoyment at death, without regard to the time when the will or other instrument containing such devise, bequest or other such disposition shall have been made, to any foreign country, subdivision thereof, or city, body politic, or corporation, located therein or existing under the laws thereof, or in trust or otherwise to any trustee or agent thereof, except devises, bequests or other such dispositions to institutions created and existing exclusively for religious, educational, or charitable purposes, is hereby prohibited. Any such devise, bequest or other such disposition shall be void.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 38; L. 1992, ch. 79, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 132, § 19; Jan. 1, 1995.
KS Stat § 59-604 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-604 Devise or bequest to witness.

59-604. Devise or bequest to witness. A beneficial devise or bequest made in a will to a subscribing witness thereto shall be void, unless there are two other competent subscribing witnesses who are not beneficiaries thereunder. But if such witness would have been entitled to any share of the testator's estate in the absence of a will, then so much of such share as will not exceed the value of the devise or bequest shall pass to the witness from the part of the estate included in the void devise or bequest. Such share shall be considered as a legacy or devise within the meaning of K.S.A. 59-1405.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 40; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-605 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-605 Preparation of will or provision of will that gives any devise or bequest to writer or preparer.

59-605. Preparation of will or provision of will that gives any devise or bequest to writer or preparer. Any provision in a will, written or prepared for another person, that gives the writer or preparer or the writer's or preparer's parent, children, issue, sibling or spouse any devise or bequest is invalid unless:(a) The writer or preparer is related to the testator by blood, marriage or adoption and the devise or bequest is not more than the writer or preparer or the writer's or preparer's parent, children, issue, sibling or spouse would receive under the laws of intestate succession, if the property passed in that manner; or(b) it affirmatively appears that the testator had read or knew the contents of the will and had independent legal advice with reference thereto. As used in this section, "children" and "issue" shall have the same meaning as provided in K.S.A. 59-501, and amendments thereto.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 41; L. 2002, ch. 135, § 2; L. 2004, ch. 73, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-607 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-607 Competency of witness.

59-607. Competency of witness. If a witness to a will is competent at the time of his or her attestation, his or her subsequent incompetency shall not prevent the admission of such will to probate.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 43; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-608 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-608 Nuncupative will.

59-608. Nuncupative will. An oral will made in the last sickness shall be valid in respect to personal property, if reduced to writing and subscribed by two competent, disinterested witnesses within thirty days after the speaking of the testamentary words, when the testator called upon some person present at the time the testamentary words were spoken to bear testimony to said disposition as his or her will.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 44; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-609 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-609 Will executed without state.

59-609. Will executed without state. A will executed without this state in the manner prescribed by this act, or by the law of the place of its execution, or by the law of the testator's residence either at the time of its execution or of the testator's death, shall be deemed to be legally executed, and shall have the same force and effect as if executed in compliance with the provisions of this act: Provided, Said will is in writing and subscribed by the testator.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 45; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-610 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-610 Revocation by marriage, birth or adoption; divorce.

59-610. Revocation by marriage, birth or adoption; divorce. If after making a will the testator marries and has a child, by birth or adoption, the will is thereby revoked. If after making a will the testator is divorced, all provisions in such will in favor of the testator's spouse so divorced are thereby revoked.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 46; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-611 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-611 Manner of revocation.

59-611. Manner of revocation. Except as provided in K.S.A. 59-610, no will in writing shall be revoked or altered otherwise than by some other will in writing; or by some other writing of the testator declaring such revocation or alteration and executed with the same formalities with which the will itself was required by law to be executed; or unless such will be burnt, torn, canceled, obliterated or destroyed, with the intent and for the purpose of revoking the same, by the testator himself or herself or by another person in the testator's presence by his or her direction.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 47; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-612 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-612 Revocation of second will not revivor of first, when.

59-612. Revocation of second will not revivor of first, when. If the testator shall make a second will, the revocation of the second will shall not revive the first will, unless it appears by the terms of such revocation that it was the testator's intention to revive the first will, or unless after such revocation the testator shall duly republish his or her first will in the presence of two or more competent witnesses who shall subscribe the same in the presence of the testator.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 48; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-613 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-613 After-acquired property.

59-613. After-acquired property. All property acquired by the testator after making his or her will shall pass thereby in like manner as if possessed by him or her at the time when the testator made his or her will, unless a different intention appears from the will.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 49; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-614 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-614 When devise passes whole.

59-614. When devise passes whole. Every devise of real estate shall pass all the estate of the testator therein, unless it clearly appears by the will that he or she intended a less estate to pass.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 50; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-615 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-615 Devise or bequest to spouse or relative who predeceases testator; "issue" defined.

59-615. Devise or bequest to spouse or relative who predeceases testator; "issue" defined. (a) If a devise or bequest is made to a spouse or to any relative by lineal descent or within the sixth degree, whether by blood or adoption, and such spouse or relative dies before the testator, leaving issue who survive the testator, such issue shall take the same estate which said devisee or legatee would have taken if he or she had survived, unless a different disposition is made or required by the will.(b) As used in this section or as used in any will executed on or after July 1, 1973, unless the provisions of such will specifically provide to the contrary, the term "issue" means offspring, progeny or lineal descendants, by blood or adoption, in whatever degree.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 51; L. 1968, ch. 339, § 1; L. 1969, ch. 279, § 1; L. 1970, ch. 226, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 230, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-616 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-616 Probate essential.

59-616. Probate essential. No will shall be effectual to pass real or personal property unless it shall have been duly admitted to probate.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 52; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-617 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-617 Limitation on probate of written will.

59-617. Limitation on probate of written will. No will of a testator who died while a resident of this state shall be effectual to pass property unless a petition is filed for the probate of such will within six months after the death of the testator, except as hereinafter provided.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 53; L. 1943, ch. 213, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 215, § 1; L. 1985, ch. 191, § 8; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-618 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-618 Liability and effect of withholding will.

59-618. Liability and effect of withholding will. Any person who has possession of the will of a testator dying a resident of this state, or has knowledge of such will and access to it for the purpose of probate, and knowingly withholds it from the district court having jurisdiction to probate it for more than six months after the death of the testator shall be liable for reasonable attorney fees, costs and all damages sustained by beneficiaries under the will who do not have possession of the will and are without knowledge of it and access to it. Such will may be admitted to probate as to any innocent beneficiary on petition for probate by any such beneficiary, if such petition is filed within 90 days after such beneficiary has knowledge of such will and access to it, except that the title of any purchaser in good faith, without knowledge of such will, to any property derived from the fiduciary, heirs, devisees or legatees of the decedent, shall not be defeated by the production of the will of such decedent and the petition for probate of the will after the expiration of six months from the death of the decedent.The provisions of this section as amended by this act shall apply retroactively to the withholding of a will of a testator.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 54; L. 1943, ch. 213, § 2; L. 1972, ch. 215, § 2; L. 1976, ch. 242, § 6; L. 1985, ch. 191, § 9; July 1.
KS Stat § 59-618a (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-618a Filing of certain wills in court; affidavit; admission to probate.

59-618a. Filing of certain wills in court; affidavit; admission to probate. (a) Any person possessing a decedent's will may file in the district court of the county of the decedent's last residence the decedent's will and an affidavit which complies with subsection (b).(b) An affidavit filed pursuant to this section shall state: (1) The name, residence address and date and place of death of the decedent; (2) the names, addresses and relationships of all the decedent's heirs, legatees and devisees which are known to the affiant after a diligent search and inquiry; (3) the name and address of any trustee of any trust established under the will; (4) that the will is being filed with the district court for the purpose of preserving it for record in the event that probate proceedings are later required; and (5) that a copy of the affidavit and will has been mailed to each heir, legatee and devisee named in the affidavit.(c) Any will filed pursuant to this section within a period of six months after the death of the testator may be admitted to probate after such six-month period.History: L. 1977, ch. 196, § 1; L. 1982, ch. 235, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 147, § 12; L. 1985, ch. 191, § 10; L. 1996, ch. 234, § 14; L. 2010, ch. 19, § 1; L. 2016, ch. 50, § 1; May 19.
KS Stat § 59-619 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 59 - Probate Code|Article 6 - Wills|59-619 Limitation on probate of oral will.

59-619. Limitation on probate of oral will. No oral will of a testator who died while a resident of this state shall be admitted to probate unless an application is made therefor within six months after the death of the testator, except as provided by K.S.A. 59-2229 and 59-2230, and amendments thereto.History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 55; L. 1982, ch. 235, § 2; July 1.