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- Wis. Stat. § 851.13 · Issue.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.15 · Mortgage.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.17 · Net estate.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.19 · Person.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.21 · Person interested.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.23 · Personal representative.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.27 · Property.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.29 · Sale.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.295 · Surviving domestic partner.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.30 · Surviving spouse.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.31 · Will.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.40 · Basis for attorney fees.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.50 · Status of adopted persons.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.55 · Simultaneous death.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.70 · Presumption in favor of orders.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.71 · Appointment and compensation of registers in probate.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.72 · Duties of registers in probate.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.73 · Powers of registers in probate.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.74 · Fees in probate matters.
- Wis. Stat. § 851.75 · Register in probate may be appointed deputy clerk.
- Wis. Stat. § 852.01 · Basic rules for intestate succession.
- Wis. Stat. § 852.03 · Related rules.
- Wis. Stat. § 852.05 · Status of child born to unmarried parents for purposes of intestate succession.
- Wis. Stat. § 852.09 · Assignment of home to surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner.
- Wis. Stat. § 852.10 · Disinheritance from intestate share.
- Wis. Stat. § 852.11 · Advancement.
- Wis. Stat. § 852.12 · Debts to decedent.
- Wis. Stat. § 852.13 · Right to disclaim intestate share.
- Wis. Stat. § 852.14 · Inheritance by a parent who abandons a child.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.01 · Capacity to make or revoke a will.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.03 · Execution of wills.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.04 · Self-proved will.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.05 · Execution of wills outside the state or by nonresidents within this state.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.07 · Witnesses.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.09 · Deposit of will in circuit court during testator’s lifetime.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.11 · Revocation.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.12 · Premarital will or predomestic partnership will.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.13 · Contracts.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.15 · Equitable election if will attempts to dispose of property belonging to beneficiary.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.17 · Effect of will provision changing beneficiary of life insurance or annuity.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.18 · Designation of beneficiary, payee or owner.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.19 · Advancement.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.25 · Unintentional failure to provide for issue of testator.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.27 · Lapse.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.29 · After-acquired property.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.31 · Presumption that will passes all of testator’s interest in property.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.32 · Effect of reference to another document.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.325 · Effect of reference to acts or events.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.33 · Gift of securities.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.34 · Transfers to testamentary trusts.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.35 · Nonademption of specific gifts in certain instances.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.40 · Disclaimer.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.41 · Applicability of general transfers at death provisions.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.50 · Definitions.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.51 · Execution of will.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.52 · Contents of wills.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.53 · Selection of property disposition clause.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.54 · Revocation or revision.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.55 · Wisconsin basic will.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.56 · Wisconsin basic will with trust.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.57 · Personal, recreational and household items.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.58 · Residuary estate; basic will.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.59 · Residuary estate; basic will with trust.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.60 · Mandatory clauses.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.61 · Mandatory clauses; basic will with trust.
- Wis. Stat. § 853.62 · Date of execution of will.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.01 · Definitions.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.02 · Scope.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.03 · Requirement of survival by 120 hours.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.04 · Representation; per stirpes; modified per stirpes; per capita at each generation; per capita.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.05 · No exoneration of encumbered property.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.06 · Predeceased transferee.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.07 · Failed transfer and residue.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.08 · Nonademption of specific gifts in certain cases.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.09 · Advancement; satisfaction.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.10 · Choice of law.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.11 · Gift of securities.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.12 · Debt to transferor.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.13 · Disclaimer of transfers at death.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.14 · Beneficiary who kills decedent.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.15 · Revocation of provisions in favor of former spouse or former domestic partner.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.17 · Marital property classification; ownership and division of marital property at death.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.18 · Order in which assets apportioned; abatement.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.19 · Penalty clause for contest.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.20 · Status of adopted persons.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.21 · Persons included in family groups or classes.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.22 · Form of distribution for transfers to family groups or classes.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.23 · Protection of payers and other 3rd parties.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.24 · Protection of buyers.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.25 · Personal liability of recipients not for value.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.26 · Effect of federal preemption.
- Wis. Stat. § 854.30 · Application of certain wills or trusts referring to repealed federal transfer taxes.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.01 · Jurisdiction.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.03 · Wills in court for safekeeping.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.05 · Delivery of will to court.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.07 · Who may petition for administration.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.09 · Petition for administration, contents.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.11 · Notice of hearing on petition for administration.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.13 · Will must be proved; informal probate.
- Wis. Stat. § 856.15 · Proof of will and proof of heirs where uncontested.