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TN Code § 30-2-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 2 - Homestead|§ 30-2-203. Notice of Application

  When an application for homestead is filed pursuant to this part, it shall be served upon the personal representative, if one has been appointed, and to the heirs or devisees and distributees or legatees who reside in this state. If there is a minor interested, the guardian shall also be served, and, if no guardian has been appointed, the courts shall appoint a guardian ad litem for the minor. Service of the application upon the parties named pursuant to this subsection (a), shall constitute adequate notice of the application for homestead.   It shall not be necessary to serve the application for homestead upon nonresidents, but any nonresident interested in the estate and not so served shall have three (3) years from the date of the application to move for a rehearing of the cause. The filing of a petition for a rehearing and service of the petition on all interested parties shall constitute adequate notice of the rehearing. The cost of the rehearing shall be taxed as may be deemed just by the court.    Code 1858, §§ 2408 — 2410 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 77, § 3-5); Shan., §§ 4151 — 4153; mod. Code 1932, §§ 8368 — 8370; impl. am. Acts 1976, ch. 529, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 30-903 — 30-905; Acts 2002, ch. 735, § 14.
TN Code § 30-2-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 2 - Homestead|§ 30-2-204. Application for Homestead — Action to Set Aside Property So Designated

  The surviving spouse may make application to any one of the courts named in § 30-2-202 in the county where the husband or wife, as the case may be, last resided before death, for the appointment of two (2) freeholders or householders of the county, unconnected by affinity or consanguinity with those interested in the estate of the deceased, to allot and set apart the homestead to the applicant, in connection with the county surveyor, or the surveyor's deputy.   Any action to set aside the property designated in this section shall be brought within the time limits set by § 31-4-102.    Code 1858, § 2411 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 77, § 2); Shan., § 4154; mod. Code 1932, § 8371; Acts 1976, ch. 529, § 14; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-906; Acts 1999, ch. 491, § 3.
TN Code § 30-2-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 2 - Homestead|§ 30-2-205. Appointment of Substitute Surveyor

 If the surveyor is connected with any of the parties interested, either by affinity or consanguinity, the court shall appoint some competent surveyor, other than the surveyor's deputy, in the surveyor's place.   Code 1858, § 2412 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 77, § 2); Shan., § 4155; mod. Code 1932, § 8372; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-907.
TN Code § 30-2-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 2 - Homestead|§ 30-2-206. Proceedings Summary

 The proceedings upon applications for homestead are summary, unless the applicant is the personal representative, and shall be heard and determined at the first term after notice.   Code 1858, § 2413 (deriv. Acts 1784 (Apr.), ch. 22, § 10); Shan., § 4156; mod. Code 1932, § 8373; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-908.
TN Code § 30-2-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 2 - Homestead|§ 30-2-207. Order Delivered to Surveyor — Commissioners Notified to Lay Off Homestead — Oath

 The clerk of the court shall, within forty (40) days after the adjournment of the court, deliver to the surveyor a copy of the order, and thereupon the surveyor shall notify the two (2) commissioners of the time and place, to be designated by the surveyor, of laying off the homestead; before entering upon that duty, the surveyor shall administer to the commissioners an oath for the faithful and true performance of that duty.   Code 1858, § 2415 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 77, § 6; 1851-1852, ch. 95, § 1); Shan., § 4158; mod. Code 1932, § 8375; impl. am. Acts 1976, ch. 529, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-909.
TN Code § 30-2-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 2 - Homestead|§ 30-2-208. Out-of-County Lands

 Should any of the lands to which the applicant may be entitled as homestead lie out of the county where the application is made, the commissioners, if so directed in the order of court, shall view and take them into estimate.   Code 1858, § 2415 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 77, § 6; 1851-1852, ch. 95, § 1); Shan., § 4158; mod. Code 1932, § 8375; Acts 1976, ch. 529, § 15; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-910.
TN Code § 30-2-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 2 - Homestead|§ 30-2-209. Assignment Out of Sale Proceeds

 If real estate is so situated that homestead cannot be set apart, as provided in this part, then the realty shall be sold and five thousand dollars ($5,000) of the proceeds invested in real estate, under the direction of the court having jurisdiction to be held as homestead subject to the law governing homestead, or if the court deems it more desirable and practical, it may order the payment of five thousand dollars ($5,000) in cash or other personal property outright and in fee to the surviving spouse, if any, otherwise to the minor children, if any, in lieu of all other homestead rights in the realty of the deceased.
TN Code § 30-2-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 2 - Homestead|§ 30-2-210. Assignment of Homestead and Plat Recorded

 The commissioners shall, in their report, exhibit a plat of the homestead, and also plainly set forth the same by metes and bounds where the homestead can be so assigned, and if the report is confirmed by the court, the clerk shall enter it in full with the plat on the records of the court.   Code 1858, § 2417 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 77, § 7); Shan., § 4160; Code 1932, § 8377; Acts 1976, ch. 529, § 17; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-913.
TN Code § 30-2-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 2 - Homestead|§ 30-2-211. Costs

 The costs of the application shall be paid by the applicant unless the court otherwise adjudge.   Code 1858, § 2418 (deriv. Acts 1815, ch. 85, § 3); Shan., § 4161; mod. Code 1932, § 8378; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-914.
TN Code § 30-2-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-302. Recording of Inventory

 The clerk shall present the inventory to the court, and, if it appears to be regular, the court shall order it to be recorded in the book of inventories.   Code 1858, § 2242 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 180, § 1); Shan., § 3978; Code 1932, § 8190; T.C.A (orig. ed.), § 30-502.
TN Code § 30-2-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-303. Sale of Decedent's Effects

 Unless otherwise directed by the will and unless the specific personal property is the subject of a bequest, the personal representative of a testate or intestate estate may, in the personal representative's discretion, sell the personal property of the decedent at public or private sale, for cash or on terms, in such manner and for such prices as the personal representative may deem advisable; but the personal representative shall not make a private sale to the personal representative, to business associates, to members of the personal representative's immediate family or to their agents without court approval or the written consent of all residuary distributees of the estate. The personal representative may employ persons or firms to conduct the sale and shall receive credit for all reasonable expenses of the sale in the final accounting.   Code 1858, §§ 2243-2245 (deriv. Acts 1723, ch. 10, § 2; 1797, ch. 7, § 5); Shan., §§ 3979-3981; mod. Code 1932, §§ 8191-8193; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 30-503 — 30-505; Acts 1985, ch. 140, § 12.
TN Code § 30-2-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-304. Apportionment of Rents Upon Death of Life Tenant

  Where a tenant for life of real estate creates a lease out of the tenant's estate for one (1) or more years, and dies before the expiration of the lease, and before the term fixed for the payment of the rent, the rent may be apportioned, and the executor or administrator of the tenant for life may recover of the lessee, pro rata, according to the contract, and for the time the lessee had the use of the property until the death of the tenant for life.   Whenever any person has rented from a life tenant by written contract signed by the life tenant any real estate, adapted to and rented for farming or agricultural purposes, for a period not exceeding one (1) year, and the written contract has been entered into after December 1st of the preceding year, and the life tenant dies after the succeeding January 1st and during the year for which the contract is made, the lessee shall have the right to hold possession of such premises until the end of the year or term as against the remaindermen and all other persons; and in this case the rents on the premises for the year shall be apportioned between the estate of the deceased life tenant and the remainderman as provided by subsection (a).
TN Code § 30-2-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-305. Debts Chargeable Against All Assets

 Every debtor's property, except such as may be specially exempt by law, is assets for the satisfaction of all the debtor's just debts.   Code 1858, § 2252 (deriv. 5 Geo. II, ch. 7, § 4); Shan., § 3985; Code 1932, § 8197; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-508.
TN Code § 30-2-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-308. Triplicate Copies of Pleadings as Claims

 Triplicate copies of the first pleading filed in original actions against a personal representative shall be filed with the clerk of the court where the administration originated, to be noted by the clerk in the record of claims as are other claims filed.
TN Code § 30-2-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-309. Statute of Limitations Arrested by Filing Claim

 The filing of claims within the time and in the manner provided in §§ 30-2-307 and 30-2-308 shall operate to arrest any statute of limitations applicable to the claims.
TN Code § 30-2-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-310. Limitation on Time of Filing Claims

  All claims and demands not filed with the probate court clerk, as required by §§ 30-2-306 — 30-2-309, or, if later, in which suit has not been brought or revived before the end of twelve (12) months from the date of death of the decedent, shall be forever barred.   Notwithstanding subsection (a), all claims and demands not filed by the state with the probate court clerk, as required by §§ 30-2-306 — 30-2-309, or, if later, in which suit has not been brought or revived before the end of twelve (12) months from the date of death of the decedent, shall be forever barred. This statute of limitations shall not apply to claims for taxes. Claims for state taxes shall continue to be governed by § 67-1-1501.
TN Code § 30-2-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-311. Waiver of Filing Small Claims — Payment

 Notwithstanding §§ 30-2-307 — 30-2-310, the personal representative, if in the personal representative's discretion it is deemed proper, may waive the requirement for the filing of and may pay any claim not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) principal amount. If the act of the personal representative in so doing is brought into question, the personal representative will have the burden of showing the validity of the claim so paid.   C. Supp. 1950, § 8196.2; Acts 1979, ch. 90, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-514; Acts 1987, ch. 322, § 8.
TN Code § 30-2-312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-312. Entry of Claim by Clerk — Fees — Notice

 Each claim filed with the clerk shall be entered by the clerk in a well bound book, in which the clerk shall set forth the title of the estate, the name and address of the creditor as reflected by the claim filed, the nature and amount of the claim and the date of filing, which book shall be provided and paid for as are other records in the clerk's office. The fees authorized by § 8-21-401(c)(1)(A) shall be paid to the clerk by the claimant at the time such claim is filed. If notice is required to be given to the residuary beneficiary or beneficiaries of the decedent's estate as required by § 30-2-313(b), the claimant shall pay to the clerk on the filing of the claim the fee provided by § 8-21-401(c)(9) for each residuary beneficiary to whom notice is to be given.
TN Code § 30-2-313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-313. Notice of Filing Claim — Exceptions to Claims — Jury Trials Upon Demand

  The clerk of the court, within five (5) days after the filing of a claim and its entry in the claim book as provided in § 30-2-312, shall give written notice to the personal representative and the attorney of record of the filing of the claim, by mailing each a true and correct copy of the claim.   If a personal representative of the decedent's estate files a claim against the estate of the decedent, the clerk of the court, within five (5) days after the filing of a claim and the entry thereof in the claim book as provided in § 30-2-312, shall give written notice to each residuary beneficiary of the decedent's estate of the filing of the claim, by mailing each a true and correct copy of the claim. The notice required by this subsection (b) is in addition to the notice required to be given by subsection (a).   A claim shall not become a final judgment against the estate until after the expiration of the exception period prescribed in § 30-2-314(a).   Should the claimant or the party excepting desire a trial by jury, it shall be demanded by that party in the first claim or exception filed. However, a claimant who has not demanded a jury in the claimant's claim may do so within five (5) days after receipt of notice of the filing of exceptions to the claimant's claim by filing a written demand for a jury with the probate court clerk.
TN Code § 30-2-315 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-315. Trial of Disputed Claims Where No Jury Demanded — Appeals — Independent Suits, Effect

   The clerk shall, within ten (10) days after the filing of exceptions to a claim, in which matter no jury is demanded, as herein provided, fix a date for the hearing thereof by the court, and mail notice of the hearing to the personal representative, to the claimant whose claim has been excepted to, and to the party filing the exception. The date so fixed shall be not less than fifteen (15) days after the date of the mailing of the notice, nor more than eight (8) months after the date of the notice to creditors.   The court shall hear and determine all issues arising upon all the exceptions.   No other pleadings shall be required and the testimony may be taken orally or by deposition.   The court shall assess the costs accruing in consequence of the exceptions in accordance with its discretion, and all costs assessed against the personal representative shall be a proper charge against the estate.     A judgment upon the findings of the court shall be entered in the court and from the judgment an appeal may be perfected within thirty (30) days from the date of entry of the judgment, to the court of appeals or the supreme court, as the case may be. The procedure on appeal shall be governed by the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure.    Notwithstanding §§ 30-2-306 — 30-2-314, whenever there is instituted in any other court of competent jurisdiction an independent suit against a personal representative involving liability of the estate, and a claim founded on the same cause of action is or has been filed against the estate in the manner provided in §§ 30-2-307 and 30-2-308, which claim has not been adjudicated by the court in which the administration is pending, the court in which the administration is pending shall hold in abeyance any action on the claim until the final determination of the independent suit, whereupon, on the filing of a certified copy of the final judgment or decree with the clerk of the court in which the administration is pending, that court is authorized to enter judgment accordingly.   This subsection (c) is not intended to deprive the judgment creditor of any other remedy provided by law for the enforcement of the final judgment or decree rendered in the independent suit.
TN Code § 30-2-316 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-316. Judgment on Claims Where No Exceptions Filed

 After the lapse of ninety (90) days from and after the expiration of the time for entering exceptions to claims filed against the estate, the court may, upon the written application of any creditor having a matured claim on which no independent suit is pending, to whose duly filed claim no exception has been filed as provided in § 30-2-314, enter judgment for the creditor against the estate; provided, that not less than five (5) days' prior written notice of intention to file an application shall be given to the personal representative, stating the time at which the application is to be presented to the court.   C. Supp. 1950, § 8196.5; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-519.
TN Code § 30-2-317 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-317. Priority of Claims — Payment — Contested or Unmatured Claims

  All claims or demands against the estate of any deceased person shall be divided into the following classifications, which shall have priority in the order shown:  First: Costs of administration, including, but not limited to, premiums on the fiduciary bonds and reasonable compensation to the personal representative and the personal representative's counsel;   Second: Reasonable funeral expenses;   Third: Taxes and assessments imposed by the federal or any state government or subdivision of the federal or any state government, including claims by the bureau of TennCare pursuant to § 71-5-116 and including city and county governments; and   Fourth: All other demands that may be filed as aforementioned within four (4) months after the date of notice to creditors.     All demands against the estate shall be paid by the personal representative in the order in which they are classed, and no demand of one class shall be paid until the claims of all prior classes are satisfied or provided for; and if there are not sufficient assets to pay the whole of any one class, the claims in that class shall be paid pro rata.   Debts due upon bills single, bonds, bills of exchange and promissory notes, whether with or without seal, and upon settled and liquidated accounts signed by the debtor, are of equal dignity, unless otherwise provided, and are to be paid accordingly.   The personal representative shall hold aside sufficient funds or other assets to pay each contested or unmatured claim (or the proper ratable portion thereof, as the case may be) with interest (if the claim be one bearing interest), until it is determined whether or not the claim is to be paid, or until an unmatured claim has reached maturity, also sufficient assets to meet the expenses of pending litigation and costs of court and any unpaid taxes.    Code 1858, § 2250 (deriv. Acts 1786, ch. 4, § 2); Shan., § 3983; mod. Code 1932, § 8195; Acts 1939, ch. 175, § 4; 1947, ch. 137, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 8196.5 (Williams, § 8196.4); Acts 1971, ch. 229, § 5; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-520; Acts 1997, ch. 426, § 7; 2001, ch. 400, § 1; 2006, ch. 639, § 2; 2014, ch. 883, § 2.
TN Code § 30-2-318 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-318. Payment of Claims Prior to Time Fixed for Payment

  At any time prior to the expiration of the period fixed for the payment of claims, the personal representative may pay the preferred claims as provided in § 30-2-317 for which the estate may be liable, and upon order of court any debt of the decedent for which security may have been given that is in danger of being sold by way of foreclosure to the detriment of the estate.   If the executor or administrator knows or is willing to undertake that an estate is solvent, the executor or administrator may pay debts, but if the executor or administrator pays any debts other than those specified in subsection (a) prior to the expiration of the time fixed for the payment of claims, and the estate proves insolvent, the executor or administrator and the sureties of the executor or administrator shall be liable to each and every creditor for the creditor's ratable share of the insolvent estate.    Code 1858, § 2325 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 283, § 1); Shan., § 4064; mod. Code 1932, § 8260; modified; Acts 1939, ch. 175, § 4; C. Supp. 1950, § 8196.5 (Williams, § 8196.4); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 30-521, 30-522.
TN Code § 30-2-319 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-319. Time for Payment of Claims

 All uncontested claims and all contested claims that have been finally adjudged and allowed shall be paid by the personal representative as soon as practicable (not in any event to exceed ninety (90) days) after the expiration of the date on which the personal representative could file an exception to the claim pursuant to § 30-2-314(a), if, after having segregated sufficient assets to meet the contingent liabilities referred to in § 30-2-317, adequate assets are in the personal representative's hands for this purpose, payment being made according to the classification of the claims.
TN Code § 30-2-320 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution|Part 3 - Inventory and Management|§ 30-2-320. Pending Actions Considered Legally Filed Demands — Manner of Revival

 All actions pending against any person at the time of that person's death, that by law may survive against the personal representative, shall be considered demands legally filed against the estate at the time of the filing with the clerk of the court in which the estate is being administered of a copy in duplicate of the order of revivor, one (1) of which copies shall be certified or attested, a notation of which shall be entered by the clerk in the record of claims, as in the case of other claims filed. Pending actions not so revived against the personal representative within the period prescribed in § 30-2-307(a) shall abate.