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MI Comp L § 700.2401 (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-4 - Part 4 Exempt Property and Allowances (700.2401...700.2405)|Section 700.2401 - Applicable Law.

700.2401 Applicable law. Sec. 2401.  This part applies to the estate of a decedent who dies domiciled in this state. For a decedent who dies domiciled outside of this state, rights to homestead allowance, family allowance, and exempt property are governed by the law of the decedent's domicile at death. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2402 (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-4 - Part 4 Exempt Property and Allowances (700.2401...700.2405)|Section 700.2402 - Homestead Allowance.

700.2402 Homestead allowance. Sec. 2402.  A decedent's surviving spouse is entitled to a homestead allowance of $15,000.00, adjusted as provided in section 1210. If there is no surviving spouse, each minor child and each dependent child of the decedent is entitled to a homestead allowance equal to $15,000.00, adjusted as provided in section 1210, divided by the number of the decedent's minor and dependent children. The homestead allowance is exempt from and has priority over all claims against the estate, except administration costs and expenses and reasonable funeral and burial expenses. A homestead allowance is in addition to any share passing to the surviving spouse or minor or dependent child by the will of the decedent, unless otherwise provided, by intestate succession, or by elective share. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 177, Imd. Eff. June 20, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2403 (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-4 - Part 4 Exempt Property and Allowances (700.2401...700.2405)|Section 700.2403 - Family Allowance.

700.2403 Family allowance. Sec. 2403.  (1) For their maintenance during the period of administration, a reasonable family allowance is payable to the decedent's surviving spouse and minor children whom the decedent was obligated to support, and children of the decedent or another who were in fact being supported by the decedent, which allowance shall not continue for longer than 1 year if the estate is inadequate to discharge allowed claims. The family allowance may be paid in a lump sum or in periodic installments. The family allowance is payable to the surviving spouse, if living, for the use of the surviving spouse and minor and dependent children; otherwise to the children or persons having their care and custody. If a minor child or dependent child is not living with the surviving spouse, the allowance may be paid partially to the child or to a fiduciary or other person having the child's care and custody, and partially to the spouse, as their needs may appear.  (2) The family allowance is exempt from and has priority over all claims except administration costs and expenses, reasonable funeral and burial expenses, and the homestead allowance. The family allowance is not chargeable against a benefit or share passing to the surviving spouse or children by the will of the decedent, unless otherwise provided, by intestate succession, or by way of elective share. The death of an individual entitled to family allowance terminates the right to allowances not yet paid. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 177, Imd. Eff. June 20, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2404 (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-4 - Part 4 Exempt Property and Allowances (700.2401...700.2405)|Section 700.2404 - Exempt Property.

700.2404 Exempt property.Sec. 2404.  (1) The decedent's surviving spouse is also entitled to household furniture, automobiles, furnishings, appliances, and personal effects from the estate up to a value not to exceed $10,000.00 more than the amount of any security interests to which the property is subject. If there is no surviving spouse, the decedent's children who are not excluded under subsection (4) are entitled jointly to the same value.  (2) If encumbered assets are selected and the value in excess of security interests, plus that of other exempt property, is less than $10,000.00, or if there is not $10,000.00 worth of exempt property in the estate, the spouse or children who are not excluded under subsection (4) are entitled to other assets of the estate, if any, to the extent necessary to make up the $10,000.00 value. Rights to exempt property and assets needed to make up a deficiency of exempt property have priority over all claims against the estate, except that the right to assets to make up a deficiency of exempt property abates as necessary to permit payment of all of the following in the following order:  (a) Administration costs and expenses.  (b) Reasonable funeral and burial expenses.  (c) Homestead allowance.  (d) Family allowance.  (3) The rights under this section are in addition to a benefit or share passing to the surviving spouse or children by the decedent's will, unless otherwise provided, by intestate succession, or by elective share. The $10,000.00 amount described in this section must be adjusted as provided in section 1210.  (4) The decedent may exclude 1 or more of the decedent's children from receiving exempt property or assets to make up a deficiency of exempt property under subsection (1) by either of the following means:   (a) The decedent by will expressly states either of the following:   (i) The child takes nothing.  (ii) The child takes an amount of $10.00 or less from the estate.  (b) The decedent by will expressly states that the child is not to receive exempt property under this section. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 177, Imd. Eff. June 20, 2000 ;-- Am. 2018, Act 143, Eff. Aug. 8, 2018 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2405 (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-4 - Part 4 Exempt Property and Allowances (700.2401...700.2405)|Section 700.2405 - Selection, Determination, and Documentation.

700.2405 Selection, determination, and documentation. Sec. 2405.  (1) If the estate is otherwise sufficient, property specifically devised shall not be used to satisfy rights to homestead allowance or exempt property. Subject to this restriction, the surviving spouse, fiduciaries or others that have the care and custody of minor children, or children who are adults may select property of the estate as homestead allowance and exempt property.  (2) The personal representative may make those selections if the surviving spouse, the adult children, or those acting for the minor children are unable or fail to do so within a reasonable time. The personal representative may execute a deed of distribution or other instrument to establish the ownership of property taken as homestead allowance or exempt property. The personal representative may determine the family allowance in a lump sum not exceeding $18,000.00, adjusted as provided in section 1210, or periodic installments not exceeding 1/12 of that amount per month for 1 year, and may disburse funds of the estate in payment of the family allowance and any part of the homestead allowance payable in cash.  (3) The personal representative or an interested person aggrieved by a selection, determination, payment, proposed payment, or failure to act under this section may petition the court for appropriate relief, which may include a family allowance other than that which the personal representative determined or could have determined. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2501 (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 700.2501 - Will; Maker; Sufficient Mental Capacity.

700.2501 Will; maker; sufficient mental capacity.Sec. 2501.  (1) An individual 18 years of age or older who has sufficient mental capacity may make a will.  (2) An individual has sufficient mental capacity to make a will if all of the following requirements are met:  (a) The individual has the ability to understand that he or she is providing for the disposition of his or her property after death.  (b) The individual has the ability to know the nature and extent of his or her property.  (c) The individual knows the natural objects of his or her bounty.  (d) The individual has the ability to understand in a reasonable manner the general nature and effect of his or her act in signing the will. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2009, Act 46, Eff. Apr. 1, 2010 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2502 (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 700.2502 - Execution; Witnessed Wills; Holographic Wills.

700.2502 Execution; witnessed wills; holographic wills.Sec. 2502.  (1) Subject to section 1202, and except as provided in subsection (2) and in sections 2503, 2506, and 2513, a will is valid only if it is all of the following:  (a) In writing.  (b) Signed by the testator or in the testator's name by some other individual in the testator's conscious presence and by the testator's direction.  (c) Signed by at least 2 individuals, each of whom signed within a reasonable time after he or she witnessed either the signing of the will as described in subdivision (b) or the testator's acknowledgment of that signature or acknowledgment of the will.  (2) A will that does not comply with subsection (1) is valid as a holographic will, whether or not witnessed, if it is dated, and if the testator's signature and the document's material portions are in the testator's handwriting.  (3) Intent that the document constitutes a testator's will can be established by extrinsic evidence, including, for a holographic will, portions of the document that are not in the testator's handwriting. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2020, Act 246, Imd. Eff. Nov. 5, 2020 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2503 (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 700.2503 - Writings Intended as Wills.

700.2503 Writings intended as wills. Sec. 2503.  Although a document or writing added upon a document was not executed in compliance with section 2502, the document or writing is treated as if it had been executed in compliance with that section if the proponent of the document or writing establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the decedent intended the document or writing to constitute any of the following:  (a) The decedent's will.  (b) A partial or complete revocation of the decedent's will.  (c) An addition to or an alteration of the decedent's will.  (d) A partial or complete revival of the decedent's formerly revoked will or of a formerly revoked portion of the decedent's will. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2505 (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 700.2505 - Witnesses.

700.2505 Witnesses. Sec. 2505.  (1) An individual generally competent to be a witness may act as a witness to a will.  (2) The signing of a will by an interested witness does not invalidate the will or any provision of it. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2506 (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 700.2506 - Choice of Law as to Execution.

700.2506 Choice of law as to execution. Sec. 2506.  A written will is valid if executed in compliance with section 2502 or 2503, with the law at the time of execution of the place where the will is executed, or with the law of the place where, at the time of execution or at the time of death, the testator is domiciled, has a place of abode, or is a national. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2507 (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 700.2507 - Revocation by Writing or by Act.

700.2507 Revocation by writing or by act. Sec. 2507.  (1) A will or a part of a will is revoked by either of the following acts:  (a) Execution of a subsequent will that revokes the previous will or a part of the will expressly or by inconsistency.  (b) Performance of a revocatory act on the will, if the testator performed the act with the intent and for the purpose of revoking the will or a part of the will or if another individual performed the act in the testator's conscious presence and by the testator's direction. For purposes of this subdivision, "revocatory act on the will" includes burning, tearing, canceling, obliterating, or destroying the will or a part of the will. A burning, tearing, or canceling is a revocatory act on the will, whether or not the burn, tear, or cancellation touches any of the words on the will.  (2) If a subsequent will does not expressly revoke a previous will, the execution of the subsequent will wholly revokes the previous will by inconsistency if the testator intended the subsequent will to replace rather than supplement the previous will.  (3) The testator is presumed to have intended a subsequent will to replace rather than supplement a previous will if the subsequent will makes a complete disposition of the testator's estate. If this presumption arises and is not rebutted by clear and convincing evidence, the previous will is revoked, and only the subsequent will is operative on the testator's death.  (4) The testator is presumed to have intended a subsequent will to supplement rather than replace a previous will if the subsequent will does not make a complete disposition of the testator's estate. If this presumption arises and is not rebutted by clear and convincing evidence, the subsequent will revokes the previous will only to the extent the subsequent will is inconsistent with the previous will, and each will is fully operative on the testator's death to the extent they are not inconsistent. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2508 (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 700.2508 - Revocation by Change of Circumstances.

700.2508 Revocation by change of circumstances. Sec. 2508.  Except as provided in sections 2802 to 2809, a change of circumstances does not revoke a will or a part of a will. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2509 (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 700.2509 - Revival of Revoked Will.

700.2509 Revival of revoked will. Sec. 2509.  (1) If a subsequent will that wholly revoked a previous will is later revoked by a revocatory act under section 2507(1)(b), the previous will remains revoked unless it is revived. The previous will is revived if it is evident from the circumstances of the revocation of the subsequent will or from the testator's contemporary or subsequent declarations that the testator intended the previous will to take effect as executed.  (2) If a subsequent will that partly revoked a previous will is later revoked by a revocatory act under section 2507(1)(b), a revoked part of the previous will is revived unless it is evident from the circumstances of the revocation of the subsequent will or from the testator's contemporary or subsequent declarations that the testator did not intend the revoked part to take effect as executed.  (3) If a subsequent will that revoked a previous will in whole or in part is later revoked by another, later will, the previous will remains revoked in whole or in part, unless it or its revoked part is revived. The previous will or its revoked part is revived to the extent it appears from the terms of the later will that the testator intended the previous will to take effect. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2510 (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 700.2510 - Incorporation by Reference.

700.2510 Incorporation by reference. Sec. 2510.  A writing in existence when a will is executed may be incorporated by reference if the language of the will manifests this intent and describes the writing sufficiently to permit its identification. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2511 (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 700.2511 - Testamentary Additions to Trusts.

700.2511 Testamentary additions to trusts.Sec. 2511.  (1) A will may validly devise property to the trustee of a trust established or to be established in any of the following manners:  (a) During the testator's lifetime by the testator, by the testator and some other person, or by some other person, including a funded or unfunded life insurance trust, although the settlor has reserved any or all rights of ownership of the insurance contracts.  (b) At the testator's death by the testator's devise to the trustee, if the trust is identified in the testator's will and its terms are set forth in a written instrument, other than a will, executed before, concurrently with, or after the execution of the testator's will or in another individual's will if that other individual has predeceased the testator, regardless of the existence, size, or character of the trust corpus.  (2) A devise described in subsection (1) is not invalid because the trust is amendable or revocable, or because the trust was amended after the execution of the will or the testator's death. Unless the testator's will provides otherwise, property devised to a trust described in subsection (1) is not held under a trust created by the will of the testator, but it becomes a part of the trust to which it is devised, and shall be administered and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the governing instrument setting forth the terms of the trust, including an amendment to the trust made before or after the testator's death.  (3) Unless the testator's will provides otherwise, a revocation or termination of the trust before the testator's death causes the devise to lapse. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2009, Act 46, Eff. Apr. 1, 2010 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2512 (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 700.2512 - Events of Independent Significance.

700.2512 Events of independent significance. Sec. 2512.  A will may dispose of property by reference to acts and events that have significance apart from their effect upon the dispositions made by the will, whether they occur before or after the execution of the will or before or after the testator's death. The execution or revocation of another individual's will is such an event. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.2513 (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 700.2513 - Separate Writing Identifying Devise of Certain Types of Tangible Personal Property.

700.2513 Separate writing identifying devise of certain types of tangible personal property. Sec. 2513.  Whether or not the provisions relating to a holographic will apply, a will may refer to a written statement or list to dispose of items of tangible personal property not otherwise specifically disposed of by the will, other than money. To be admissible under this section as evidence of the intended disposition, the writing must be either in the testator's handwriting or signed by the testator at the end, and must describe the items and the devisees with reasonable certainty. The writing may be referred to as one to be in existence at the time of the testator's death; it may be prepared before or after the execution of the will; it may be altered by the testator after its preparation; and it may be a writing that has no significance apart from its effect on the dispositions made by the will. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 54, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC