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MS SB2707

Bill

Status

Failed

2/3/2015

Primary Sponsor

Sean Tindell

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Origin

Senate

2015 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Allows any person who executes a will to file an action in chancery court for a declaratory judgment establishing the will's validity before the testator's death.

  • Requires all beneficiaries named in the will and all the testator's existing intestate successors to be named as parties to the action.

  • Treats beneficiaries and intestate successors as possessing inchoate property rights for purposes of the action.

  • Specifies that service of process follows the same procedures as other motions for declaratory judgment.

  • Preserves the testator's right to revoke the will or execute a codicil after obtaining a declaratory judgment.

Legislative Description

Pre-mortem probate; create.

Last Action

Died In Committee

2/3/2015

Committee Referrals

Judiciary, Division A1/19/2015

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