Kentucky Revised Statutes
Includes enactments through the 2024 Regular Session
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.001 Definition of "fiduciary."
.005 Who may be appointed as fiduciary.
.010 Administration must be within ten years after death.
.012 Right to file demand for notice of action regarding estate.
.015 Applications for appointment of personal representative.
.016 Notice of hearing of application.
.020 Executor not to act until will probated -- Exception.
.030 Jurisdiction of administration of intestate's estate.
.040 Administrator -- Persons entitled to be appointed -- Discovery of will.
.050 Administrator with will annexed -- Appointment -- Functions.
.060 Continuation of administration when powers of representatives cease.
.070 Executor of executor cannot administer estate of first testator.
.080 When minor may be executor.
.090 Repealed, 1966.
.100 Appointment of debtor does not extinguish debt.
.105 Fiduciary must have letters of appointment -- General duties -- When appointment effective.
.110 Copy of order effectual as probate or letters.
.120 Oaths of representatives.
.130 Bond, when required -- Cost of corporate surety paid from estate.
.140 Bond -- Persons not to be surety on -- Recording of.
.145 Attorney for fiduciary.
.150 Compensation of representatives.
.155 Computation of personal representative's commission.
.160 Removal of representatives.
.170 Nonresident representatives -- Bond -- Actions by.
.180 Repealed, 1968.
.190 Time for distribution of estate.
.195 Transactions authorized for personal representative -- Exceptions.
.196 Powers in KRS 395.195 not exclusive.
.197 Applicability of powers in KRS 395.195 and 395.196.
.200 Sale of personal property by fiduciary.
.210 Repealed, 1944.
.220 Sale of land when authorized by will.
.230 Repealed, 1960.
.240 Sale of choses in action -- Compromise of claims.
.250 Inventory -- When to be returned -- Copies are evidence.
.255 Notice to compel filing of inventory or account -- Removal for delinquency -- Disallowance of compensation.
.260 Personal estate of nonresident -- Administration of.
.270 When action against representative may be commenced.
.275 Repealed, 1974.
.276 Repealed, 1974.
.277 Repealed, 1974.
.278 When party may revive action and limitation.
.280 Successor of representative may be substituted in actions.
.290 Extent of liability of representative.
.300 Successor may sue former representative.
.310 Interest charged representative on assets.
.320 Repealed, 1974.
.325 Fiduciary resignation or disability -- Settlement of accounts.
.326 Repealed, 2014.
.330 Acts prior to revocation of powers valid.
.340 Estate for life of another considered personal estate.
.350 Emblements -- When personalty and when real estate.
.360 Apportionment of rents.
.370 Tombstone allowed as funeral expense.
.380 Public administrator and guardian.
.390 Public administrator and guardian to act, when.
.400 Functions of public administrator and sheriff.
.410 Curator -- Grounds for appointment -- Bond.
.420 Functions of curator.
.430 Application for curator for absent person -- Notice.
.440 Appeal from order appointing curator.
.450 Jurisdiction to dispense with administration.
.455 Transfer of assets without administration.
.460 Repealed, 1974.
.470 Dispensing with administration by agreement.
.480 Consent of persons under disability.
.490 Procedure when administration already granted.
.500 Order may be set aside.
.510 Persons who may bring actions for settlement of estates -- Parties.
.515 Contents of petition, adjudication of rights of interested persons -- Realty sold, when.
.520 Claims to be proved before commissioner -- Notice to creditors.
.525 Repealed, 1978.
.530 Effect of creditor presenting claim.
.535 Effect of creditor failing to present claim -- Liability of distributees.
.540 Repealed, 1974.
.545 Repealed, 1974.
.550 Creditors actions may be enjoined while action for settlement pending.
.600 District Court settlements.
.605 When informal settlement may be accepted from fiduciary.
.610 Periodic accounting by fiduciaries.
.615 Evidence -- How produced -- Allowances to be supported by facts.
.617 Proposed settlement.
.620 Report and filing of settlement.
.625 Notice requirements for filing of settlement -- Exception.
.630 Exceptions -- Confirmation -- Recording -- Effect as evidence.
.635 Certification of list of fiduciaries delinquent in accounting -- Notice -- Fees.
.640 Sureties of fiduciaries, inquiry into solvency of additional surety.
.645 Clerk to record settlements and reports.
.650 Circuit clerk to file certificate of settlement.
.655 Settlement of accounts of fiduciaries -- Jurisdiction.
.657 Trial commissioner may make settlement.
.660 Repealed, 1978.
.990 Penalties.